Associate Professor
sfreire@musica.ufmg.br
https://www.musica.ufmg.br/sfreire
Born in Belo Horizonte, in 1962. Associate Professor at the School of Music, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), teaching composition, orchestration and sonology. Since 1998, coordinates the Laboratory for Performance with Interactive Systems. Graduated in Music (composition) in the – UFMG (Brazil). Holds a master degree on Sonology (1993), from the Institute of Sonology, The Hague, Holland, and a PhD degree on Communication and Semiotics (2004) from PUC-SP, Brazil. During his PhD, was a visiting student in the Elektronisches Studio of the Musik Akademie, Basel, Switzerland. His main academic and artistic interests are focused on different forms of interaction between the acoustic musical practice and the new technological means. His musical pieces have been performed and awarded in Brazil and abroad, as well as his scientific papers.
Research interests:
– Interactive musical systems
– Hexaphonic nylon guitar
– DSP-based expansion of acoustic instruments
– Realtime audio processing
– Audiovisual theory and practice
– Pierre Schaeffer’s typo-morphology