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Diogo Alvim works between music and sound arts, exploring their interactions with architecture, specific contexts, and other arts. He is interested in expanding the practice of sound composition as a research and transformation device.
He studied architecture and composition in Lisbon. In 2016 he finished a PhD in Composition/ Sonic Arts at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, focused on the relations between music and architecture.
He currently teaches Sound Arts at ESAD Caldas da Rainha, and is an integrated researcher at CESEM, FCSH – NOVA.
He regularly collaborates with visual and sound artists, choreographers and theatre directors, in productions as diverse as installations, video, dance, performance, performative walks, and other hybrids.
Some examples of his work: Sound composition for Actos de Língua, video installation by Carlos M. Oliveira e James Newitt (Vaga, São Miguel; Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbon, 2026); Album Music for ‘Mysterious Heart’ (Crónica Electrónica, 2026) with music for a piece by Tânia Carvalho (Tanzmainz, Mainz, Germany, 2024); Trégua – collaboration with André Maranha and Renato Ferrão for Fidelidade Arte/Culturgest (curated by Bruno Marchand, 2025); Solo – sound installation and performance (Galeria Diferença and Sonoscopia, 2025, Festival Multiverso 2026, Academia Internacional de Marvão – supported by DGArtes); Music for Sax and Boxes (2025 version), a piece for tenor sax and installation at the ISCM World New Music Days Festival, (CCB Lisbon); Afluente, a sound installation for the entrance to the Portuguese Pavilion at the Osaka Expo 2025; Sound for O Futuro do Esquecimento, a video-photographic installation by Tânia Moreira David (Galeria Imago, 2024); Campo Próximo with Matilde Meireles (Sonorities Festival Belfast 2024); Canção Nova, with André Guedes (Museum as Performance 2023, Serralves Museum); Os Passos em Volta – Alcântara, a performative walk with Joana Braga (Festival Temps d’Images 2023); Jogo Duplo for Sond’Ar-te Trio (Festival Musica Viva 2023); Posição Relativa, in Arquitectura dos sons – concert integrated in the commemorations of the centenary of Iannis Xenakis, Gulbenkian Foundation 2023); Os Passos em Volta – Trafaria, a performative walk with Joana Braga, 2022 (Territórios Nómadas, NOVA-FCSH); Music for ‘Uma sequência inevitável de Acontecimentos’ de Tânia Carvalho, Danças na Cidade – RTP/ CNB, 2022); Campo Próximo with Matilde Meireles, Convento São Francisco, Coimbra and Lisboa Soa Festival, 2020); Music for S, by Tânia Carvalho (National Dance Company, with the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, 2018); Festival Musica Viva 2018 ); Chantiers d’Europe – Theatre de la Ville (artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2018). Material Music, for a piece by Ramiro Guerreiro (CNEAI, Pantin, France, 2017); Da Tradução, in Do Liminar#6 (Zaratan Gallery, Lisbon, 2016); Tłumaczenie (Sonorities Festival with the Royal String Quartet, 2015); Play with Matilde Meireles (Belfast Festival, 2014); Apartamento em Lisboa – Narrador Presente (Ibrasotope#60, 2014 and Musica Viva Festival, 2018); The Piramid and the Labyrinth (MAC-USP São Paulo, Brazil, 2014); Notation in Contemporary Music Conference at Goldsmiths University (London, 2013); No Chords Attached (ICMC 2012 with Unlikely Places, Ljubljana); Music for Sax and Boxes (ISMIR 2012, Porto); Shift, for the Young Musicians Award 2009 (commissioned by RDP – Antena 2); Distância (Ocupação_3), Festival Synthèse 2009 (Bourges); Gulbenkian Orchestra’s composers’ workshop (2008 and 2009).