PERMANENT SEMINAR ON CREATION, PERFORMANCE AND ARTISTIC RESEARCH
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.
1.04.2025 | 6h30 pm | Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da Universidade de Aveiro Auditorium
Free entrance and in person.
Concert: R.S.V.P. – piano, toy piano, video, and action
Késia Decoté | Pianist
The spectator is free: he thinks and acts for himself! Theater is action! Theater may not be revolutionary in itself, but have no doubt: it is a rehearsal for revolution!” (BOAL) In this program, pianist Késia Decoté invites the audience – and herself – to reflect on the active role of each person in making music and to explore various possibilities in creating their own musical experience.
This concert is part of the post-doctoral research “Music as an Invitation – Liveness in Digital Piano Performances through Participating Audiences”, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project led by Késia Decoté at Universitetet i Bergen, Norway, funded by the European Union.
Program
Aviva Endean – A face like yours (video – a participatory work) *
Michael Pisaro – half-sleep beings (for piano) *
Sara Carvalho – occupied mirrors (for toy piano and audience) *
Alwynne Pritchard – Hecate writes (for video and piano) *
John Cage – 4’33’’
Miriama Young – Grey Ghost (for piano and playback played through the audience’s mobile phones) *
*Portuguese premiere
Késia Decoté |
In the recording field, she released the EP Para a Frente under the Nonclassical label. This album features pieces for piano, toy piano, and electronics composed for her by emerging British composers.
She holds a PhD in Arts and Music and a Master’s degree (with distinction) from Oxford Brookes University, as well as a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree (cum laude) in Piano from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Currently, she is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, where she is developing a project on new forms of participation for women and girls in classical music performances.