Música experimental em Portugal

: análise de produção de festivais

Abstract

The present work aims to analyse the creation, production and promotion of festivals in the restricted scope of experimental music, taking into account particularly the various financial models and the produced interactions. Trying to implement the promotion and publicity of experimental music in Portugal (from the accoustic music till the more electronic one), some national agents have produced or helped to produce along the years several events under the form of festivals or one-off events, that for unknown reasons have collapsed or entered into "hibernation". Despite the efforts made over the years, we found only eleven festivals dedicated to this type of music, but only seven are active and only two (MadeiraDig and Out.Fest) have more than 10 editions. Given this discontinuity in the production of this kind of festivals in Portugal, we wanted to understand firstly the evolution of the experimental music over the past century, observing the creative and productive models generated during this time, providing a disruption from the traditional models of musical composition (Cascone, Cage). In second place, we want to comprehend the proliferation of these new models of production and creation of sound pieces and understand how the festivals may result of the produced information flow. We begin to observe and analyze the festivals, artists and publishers in the international context, which over the years, references emerge to the diffusion and promotion of experimental music. On the other side we started a inquiry process directed to the developers / producers of festivals, programmers of spaces / entities and labels in the national context whitch is professionally related to the music / experimental art. This process is constituted by three surveys molded according to their professional activities adopting a process evolutionary in relation to the questions to obtain data corresponding to the object of study. The obtained results in this research show that prodution models of experimental music festivals with impact on music in Portugal, are not governed by a basic pattern of prodution in special. We can point as factors to the discontinuity of these festivals a strong dependence on State and private supports, as the revenue obtained during the event is not superior to the costs of production. The restricted core on the number of spectators also contributes to the devaluation in performing these events, since the financial return of those is non-existent.

Date of Award	11 Apr 2016
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Vitor Joaquim (Supervisor) & Mariana Barbosa (Co-Supervisor)