The Permanent Seminar of INET-md’s Creation, Performance and Artistic Research research group is a forum where all its members (integrated and collaborators) and other academic, cultural, and artistic researchers can present their work.
5.09.2025 | 18 pm | Auditorium of the Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da Universidade de Aveiro
Free entrance and in person.
Concert and conversation with composers Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards (Universidade Folkwang)
Michael Edwards will present the work Lusted Fleeting, an immersive audio piece lasting 68 minutes, structured in five parts (plus a coda), with the possibility of incorporating a live narrator and lighting effects. Its aesthetic promiscuity, interrupted by digital discontinuities, degradations, spectral and acoustic displacements, pauses, nostalgic noise machines, and abrupt cuts, constructs a metanarrative that disrupts both the suspension of disbelief and the pleasure of being enveloped by immersive sound.
In addition, AI-generated voices are processed with auto-tune, guided by a fifteenth-century rondeau elaborated with a second voice by the composer. Lusted Fleeting is dedicated to the memory of Marisela Escobedo, a social activist who was murdered, and the mother of a teenage daughter who was also murdered
The event will also include the performance and moderation of Henrique Portovedo, researcher at INET-md.
Michael Edwards | He studied oboe and composition at the University of Bristol with Adrian Beaumont, worked extensively with Gwyn Pritchard, and studied computer music with John Chowning at CCRMA, Stanford University, where he completed both his Master’s and Doctorate. He worked at IRCAM/Paris under a residency grant from the Cité des Arts. He also served as an IT engineering consultant in Silicon Valley, developing a document recognition system implemented in several American hospitals. He was a Visiting Professor at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, a position he relinquished to join the University of Edinburgh. Since 2017, he has been Professor of Electronic Composition at ICEM, University of Popular Arts, Essen (Germany). As a composer, his research focuses on the development of algorithmic composition structures for instrumental music and their integration into computer-generated sound frameworks. He is also an improviser and computer programmer. His music has been performed at festivals such as the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, the International Computer Music Conference (Banff, Havana, Ljubljana), the Zagreb Biennale, and the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, among others, by performers including Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Aventure, Ensemble Intercontemporain, IRCAM, Experimentalstudio Freiburg, Marcus Weiss, Sarah Nicolls, Rei Nakamura, and Garth Knox.