Alvaro Barbosa, PhD in Computer Science and Digital Communication

Associate professor, School of Arts, Portuguese Catholic University
Porto, Portugal

Research field: Computer and Information Science
Networked Music
Sonic Interation Design
Audiovisual Design

Publications

Journal Article (2)
- Álvaro Barbosa (2005) Public Sound Objects : a shared environment for networked music practice on the Web, 233. In Organised Sound 10 (03).
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- Álvaro Barbosa (2003) Displaced Soundscapes: A Survey of Network Systems for Music and Sonic Art Creation, 53-59. In Leonardo Music Journal.
  http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/a...
Book (1)
- Álvaro Barbosa (2008) Displaced Soundscapes, 189. In VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.
Book Section (1)
- Álvaro Barbosa (2010) Performance Musical em Rede, 180-208. In Criação musical e tecnologias: teoria e prática interdisciplinar.
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Conference Proceedings (11)
- S. Lourenço, M. Clemente, Daniela Coimbra et al. (2009) Do pianists play with their Teeth ?, 1-6. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS 2009).
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- Rui Penha, Paulo Rodrigues, Fabien Gouyon et al. (2008) Studio report : DIGITÓPIA at casa da Musica. In Proceeedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 08).
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- Álvaro Barbosa (2008) Ten-Hand Piano : A Networked Music Installation, 1-4. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2008).
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- Joana Costa, Álvaro Barbosa, Daniela Coimbra (2006) Shared Soundscapes: A Social Environment for Collective Music Creation. In 9th International Conference on Music and Cognition (ICMPC 9).
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- Álvaro Barbosa, Jorge Cardoso, Günter Geiger (2005) Network Latency Adaptive Tempo in the Public Sound Objects System. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2005).
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- Luís Teixeira, Álvaro Barbosa, Jorge Cardoso et al. (2005) Online data mining services for dynamic spatial databases II : air quality location based services and sonification. In Proceedings of the II International Conference and Exhibition on Geographic Information (GISPLANET 2005), Estoril Congress Center.
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- P. Cano, L. Fabig, Fabien Gouyon et al. (2004) Semi-Automatic Ambiance Genereation, 5-8. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX 2004).
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- Jorge Cardoso, José Carvalho, Luís Teixeira et al. (2004) SOUNDSERVER : DATA SONIFICATION ON-DEMAND FOR COMPUTATIONAL INSTANCES, 4-7. In Proceedings of the Tenth Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2004).
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- Álvaro Barbosa, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger (2003) Interface Decoupled Applications for Geographically Displaced Collaboration in Music 2 Virtual Music Instruments in the Network, 8-11. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2003).
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- Álvaro Barbosa, Martin Kaltenbrunner (2002) Public sound objects: a shared musical space on the web, 9-16. In Proceedings of the eecond International Conference on Web Delivering of Music (WEDELMUSIC 2002).
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Thesis (1)
- Álvaro Barbosa (2006) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work for Music Applications..
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Awards and Grants

Jun 2010

Post-Doctoral Grant - FCT View website
Jan 2002

Doctoral Grant - FCT View website

Biographical Information

Álvaro Barbosa (Angola 1970) is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts from Oporto’s Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), the Portuguese leading research and educational institution in the field of Science and Technology applied to the Arts. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and Digital Communication from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain and a Graduate Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the Aveiro University in Portugal. His activity is mainly on the field of Music Technology, in which he worked for five years as a resident researcher at the Barcelona Music Technology Group (MTG). His recent research has mostly been developed at the UCP’s Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR) and is focused on the study and development of experimental Network Music Systems, as well as in Interactive Sound-Design. He has also developed several artistic projects with special emphasis in Music Composition, Interactive Installations Design and Computer Animation. His work as a researcher and an Artist has been extensively published internationally. In 2010 he undertook a Visiting Scholar Position at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) from Stanford University and in 2011 started collaborating as a Visiting Professor with the University of Saint Joseph in Macau.