Philippe Trovão

Biography

Doctoral Project Title: “RECASTING – recuperação de obras para saxofone e eletr.nica em tempo real”

Advisor Henrique Portovedo

Co-Advisors Sara Carvalho and António de Sousa Dias

Abstract Mixed music with live electronics poses, since its beginning, constraints when it comes to its dissemination and preservation. These are caused by the low practicality and obsolete of the devices, mainly analog and digital with tangible interfaces, used to transform sound. Although much research has been done in this field, I seek to offer a different angle to gaps that persist, such as the lack of documentation, centralization of resources, and difficult access and use for those who interpret pieces of the genre. This research intends to bring the performer to the center of the discussion about recovery and preservation of repertoire with live electronics. That being said, the goal is to turn the performer and the performance into guidelines for the reconstruction of electronic parts of selected pieces,

Keywords: Recasting; Saxophone; Mixed music