Perspectives on the Now: CPIA Welcomes Patrick Stadler and Alexander Khubeev in November

3 and 27 November 2026 | Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro

The Perspectives on the Now seminar series, organised by INET-md’s Research Group on Creation, Performance and Artistic Research (CPIA), continues in November with two sessions exploring different dimensions of contemporary musical creation. Patrick Stadler and Alexander Khubeev will visit the Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) at the University of Aveiro on 3 and 27 November, respectively, to address questions concerning performance, instrumental experimentation, and the relationship between music and technology.

3 November | Patrick Stadler — The New Normal: A Performer’s Perspective on Today’s Music

The first session will take place at 6:00 pm in the DeCA Sound Studio, featuring Patrick Stadler, a saxophonist specialising in contemporary music, professor at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, and member of Ensemble Nikel and Ensemble Inverspace.

Awarded the Swiss Music Prize in 2023, Stadler pursues an artistic career focused on contemporary performance and close collaboration with composers, contributing to the creation and presentation of new musical works.

Entitled The New Normal: A Performer’s Perspective on Today’s Music, his lecture will explore contemporary music from the performer’s perspective, in a context where sonic experimentation, evolving instrumental techniques, and collaboration between composers and performers continue to transform musical creation and performance practices.

27 November | Alexander Khubeev — Advancing Human-Machine Interactions in Music Co-Creativity

The second session will take place at 9:30 am at CIME, DeCA, featuring composer Alexander Khubeev, associated with the reMusik platform in St. Petersburg.

A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and recipient of the 2015 Gaudeamus Award, Khubeev has developed an international career in contemporary composition, exploring new sonic possibilities and relationships between gesture, instruments, technology, and performance.

His lecture, Advancing Human-Machine Interactions in Music Co-Creativity, addresses human-machine interactions in musical creation, opening a discussion on collaboration between performers, composers, and technological systems, as well as the ongoing transformation of contemporary compositional processes and practices.

A space for reflecting on music in the present

As part of CPIA’s scientific activities, Perspectives on the Now brings together international composers, performers, and researchers to discuss transformations in contemporary musical creation, relationships between artistic practices and technological development, and the concept of new instrumentality.

The series began in October with Aram Hovhannisyan and will continue in December with a session featuring Nicolas Brochec from IRCAM.

November’s seminars therefore offer two complementary opportunities to reflect on contemporary music, both through the performer’s artistic experience and through emerging possibilities for human-machine co-creation.

Further information: Perspectives on the Now — Full programme