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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. His work has been presented in several events, of which: Museu as Performance 2023, Serralves (Canção Nova, with André Guedes); Festival Temps d’Images 2023 (Os Passos em Volta – Alcântara, a performative walk with Joana Braga); Festival Musica Viva 2023 (Jogo Duplo for Sond’Ar-te Trio); Arquitectura dos sons – concert integrated in the commemorations of the centenary of Iannis Xenakis with the piece Posição Relativa (Gulbenkian Foundation 2023); Territórios Nómadas, NOVA-FCSH (with Joana Braga, 2022); Danças na Cidade – RTP/ CNB (2022 for a piece by Tânia Carvalho); Convento São Francisco, Coimbra and Lisboa Soa Festival (Campo Próximo with Matilde Meireles, 2020); National Dance Company, with the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra (Music for S, by Tânia Carvalho, 2018); Festival Musica Viva 2018 and 2013 (Lisbon 2013); Chantiers d’Europe – Theatre de la Ville (artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2018). CNEAI, Pantin, France (for a piece by Ramiro Guerreiro, 2017); Do Liminar#6 (Zaratan Gallery, Lisbon, 2016); Sonorities Festival (with the Royal String Quartet, 2015); Belfast Festival (with Matilde Meireles, 2014); Sounding Cities – Invisible Places (Viseu, 2014), Ibrasotope#60 and MAC-USP (São Paulo, Brazil, 2014); Notation in Contemporary Music Conference at Goldsmiths University (London, 2013); ICMC 2012 (with Unlikely Places, Ljubljana); ISMIR 2012 (Porto); Young Musicians Award 2009 (commissioned by RDP – Antena 2); Festival Synthèse 2009 (Bourges); Festival Música Portuguesa Hoje (Orchestrutopica, 2008); Gulbenkian Orchestra’s composers’ workshop (2008 and 2009).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Diogo dAguiar de Sousa Alvim

Citation names

  • Alvim, Diogo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6317-9455-0B65
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0927-1590

Email addresses

  • diogoalvim@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

  • diogoalvim.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2011/11/01 - 2016/06/30
Concluded
 Composition/ Sonic Arts (Doctor of Philosophy)
Queen's University Belfast - Sonic Arts Research Centre, United Kingdom
"Music through Architecture - Contributions to an Expanded Practice in Composition" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
2011
Concluded
 Música (Mestrado integrado)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Portugal
"Arquitectura e Música - contributos para uma visão integrada da composição" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2009/07/10
Concluded
 Música, variante de Composição, Direção e Formação Musical (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2004/06/23
Concluded
 Arquitectura (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09/01 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2018/10/12 - 2020/02/22 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas, Portugal
2002 - 2003 Tutor (Polytechnic Teacher) Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010/09/01 - 2011/08/31 Professor de Acústica (ensino secundário). Escola de Música do Conservatório NAcional, Portugal
2009/09/15 - 2011/06/30 Professor de Formação Musical e Coro (2º e 3º ciclo do ensino básico). Conservatório de Música de Cascais, Portugal
2009/09/15 - 2010/08/31 Professor de Educação Visual e Tecnológica (2º ciclo do ensino básico). Escola de Música do Conservatório NAcional, Portugal
2007/11/01 - 2008/02/29 Arquitecto MC Arquitectos, Portugal
2004/08/01 - 2006/09/30 Arquitecto assistente. Allies and Morrison, United Kingdom
2003/10/01 - 2004/07/07 Arquitecto estagiário. MC Arquitectos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/09 - 2020/09 Sounds of Tourism – INET – FCSH Nova – FCT (PTDC/ART-PER/21417/2017)
PTDC/ART-PER/32417/2017
Invited artist/ researcher
Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/01/01 - 2015/12/31 Music Through Architecture - Contributions to an Expanded Practice in Composition
SFRH / BD / 77352 / 2011
PhD Student Fellow
Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

Sonic Arts Research Centre, United Kingdom
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2022/12/31 Osso - Artistic Residencies
DGArtes Nº8945
Other
Osso Cultural, Portugal
 Direção-Geral das Artes
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2022/12/31 Expansive Territories
DGArtes Nº8945
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
 Direção-Geral das Artes
2018/12 - 2020 Livro-Caractere
DGArtes Nº7446
Other
Direção-Geral das Artes
Concluded
2016 - 2019/02 Da Nova Arte de Fazer Ruínas
DGArtes Nº5160
Other
Osso Cultural, Portugal
 Direção-Geral das Artes
Concluded
2016/03/05 - 2018/03/01 Underscore - Festival of Music, Sound, Moving Image and Archive
8204/CML/17
Other
Associação Underscore, Portugal
 Camara Municipal de Lisboa

Poland Embassy

Instituto Cervantes
Concluded
2014/03/12 - 2014/05/13 Sound Art Residency in São Paulo
TEMP/2014
Supervisor
Universidade de São Paulo Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Brazil
 Santander UK plc
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Alvim, Diogo. "Noise". In Keywords: Affective Noise, edited by Ana Pais; Martin Welton, 67-71. 2025.
    Published
  2. Alvim, Diogo. "Score with a View—Sounding Images, Imagining Sound". In Perspectives on Music, Sound and Musicology II, 237-256. Springer, 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-67503-4_14
  3. Alvim, Diogo. "Composition as Artistic Device". In Perspectives on Music, Sound and Musicology, 153-168. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-78451-5_8
Conference abstract
  1. Alvim, Diogo. "Modes of Permeability in Music". Paper presented in 16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Porto, 2025.
    Published
  2. Alvim, Diogo. "Towards a Situated Composition". Paper presented in ENIM - XIII ENCONTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM MÚSICA, Faro, 2024.
    Published
  3. Alvim, Diogo. "Jogo e espacialização numa criação musical situada". Paper presented in ENIM - XI ENCONTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM MÚSICA, Aveiro, 2022.
    Published
  4. Alvim, Diogo. "Campo Próximo". Paper presented in NCMM - Nova Contemporary Music Meeting, Lisbon, 2021.
    Published
  5. Alvim, Diogo. "Composing with real world programmes.". Paper presented in Tracking the Creative Process in Music, 5th Edition, Lisboa, 2019.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Alvim, Diogo. "Music through Architecture". Paper presented in Mind the Gap!: Working Papers on Practice Based Doctoral Research in the Creative Arts and Media, Dublin, 2015.
    Published
  2. Alvim, Diogo. "Composition beyond the score". Paper presented in Espacios Sonoros 2014, Madrid, 2014.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Alvim, Diogo. "String Quartet - Reconfiguring an Old Typology". Nova Contemporary Music Journal 1 (2022): 112-120. https://doi.org/10.34619/jaso-wz96.
    Published
  2. Alvim, Diogo. "As the World Leaks into the Work: Composition and architecture". Organised Sound 23 01 (2018): 51-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771817000279.
    Published • 10.1017/s1355771817000279
  3. Matilde Meireles; Diogo Alvim. "Trigger Place - A Game of Sound and Architecture". Journal for Artistic Research 14 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/jar.309117.
    10.22501/jar.309117
Magazine article
  1. Alvim, Diogo. "Peça com Vista", Glosas Magazine, 2018, https://glosas.mpmp.pt.
Online resource
  1. Alvim, Diogo; Meireles, Matilde. "Expansive Territories" Artistic Research project publication. 2023. https://gestaodasartes.ipleiria.pt/expansive-territories/.
    https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1902048
  2. Alvim, Diogo. "Folies Charbon" Graphic score for "Scoring the City" workshop, Soncities Research Project (Oxford Univ. ERC n.865032). 2020. http://scoring.city/library/scores/diogo-alvim/.
  3. Alvim, Diogo. Lem Score (score for the 3rd part of the String Quartet Tlumaczenie). 2017. http://whereveryoufindit.net/LEM-score.
  4. Alvim, Diogo. Artistic Sound Residency in São Paulo - a log. 2014. https://residenciasonorasaopaulo.wordpress.com.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Afluente - Sound installation for the entrance of the Portuguese Pavilion in the Osaka Expo 2025. 2025.
  2. Tânia Moreira David. "The Future of Forgetfulness" Image and sound installation. 2024.
  3. Music for "Cisnografia" - Video-dance installation by Luiz Antunes and André Mendes. 2021.
  4. Meireles, Matilde. Campo Próximo, Sound installation at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal, with Matilde Meireles. 2019.
  5. Vaz, Sara; Balesteros, Marco. Ensaio para Livro-Caractere, Installation at FOLIO - Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal. 2019.
  6. Vaz, Sara; Balesteros, Marco. Ensaio para Livro-Caractere, Installation at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisboa. 2019.
  7. Music for "Astray" - exhibition by Caroline Mesquita. 2019.
Artistic performance
  1. 2023. "Canção Nova". Museu de Serralves Porto.
  2. Joana Braga; Alvim, Diogo. 2023. "Os Passos em Volta - Alcântara" performative walk with Joana Braga for Festival Temps d'Image. Lisboa.
  3. Joana Braga. 2022. "Os Passos em Volta - Trafaria" Performative walk with Joana Braga for Territórios Nómadas, T-Factor EU Project.. Trafaria.
  4. Alvim, Diogo; Balesteros, Marco; Vaz, Sara. 2019. Ensaios para Livro — Caracter #2 do Som, collaboration with Sara Vaz and Marco Balesteros. Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisboa, Portugal.
  5. Alvim, Diogo; Cantinho, Beatriz; Jacinto, Ricardo. 2017. Da Nova Arte de Fazer Ruínas by Cantinho, Beatriz. Teatro Thalia, Lisboa, Portugal.
  6. Alvim, Diogo; Cantinho, Beatriz; Jacinto, Ricardo. 2017. Da Nova Arte de Fazer Ruínas by Cantinho, Beatriz. Arquipélago Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, São Miguel - Açores, Portugal.
  7. Alvim, Diogo. 2017. "1/500", Live electronics, sound art project - concert + installation. Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisboa, Portugal.
  8. Alvim, Diogo; Soares, Lígia; Vilhena, Rita. 2017. Turning Backs. Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  9. Alvim, Diogo; Meireles, Matilde. 2015. Old School #38. Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisboa, Portugal.
  10. Alvim, Diogo; Meireles, Matilde; O'Sullivan, Richard. 2014. Play - a site-specific sound project/ musical performance with Matilde Meireles. Belfast Festival, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Audio recording
  1. Banda Filarmónica de Alvorninha; Sociedade Filarmónica de Alvorninha (Producer). 2025. "Três Jogos para Alvorninha". In Memórias 100 Anos - Sociedade Filarmónica de Alvorninha.
Musical composition
  1. Alvim, Diogo. Music for the Future of Forgetfulness. 2024.
  2. Alvim, Diogo. Music for "Mysterious Heart". 2024.
  3. Alvim, Diogo. Music for "Canção Nova". 2023.
  4. Alvim, Diogo. Jogo Duplo. Miso Music, 2023.
  5. Alvim, Diogo. Posição Relativa. DME, 2022.
  6. Alvim, Diogo. Music for "O Palácio", a performance by Paula Diogo and Lígia Soares. 2022.
  7. Alvim, Diogo. Music for "Different Takes" a Super8 Performance by Piropeep. 2022.
  8. Alvim, Diogo. Music for "Cisnografia", a video/dance Installation by Luiz Antunes. 2021.
  9. Alvim, Diogo. Music for "Ladrão de Barulhos". 2020.
  10. Alvim, Diogo. Music for "Era um peito cheio de promessas", a piece by Miguel Pereira, premieres in Montevideo, Uruguay. 2019.
  11. Alvim, Diogo. Folies Charbon. Soncities Research Project (Univ. of Oxford, ERC n.865032), 2019.
  12. Alvim, Diogo. Music for "#Vibra#Dor", a piece by Rita Vilhena. 2019.
  13. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Astray, a film by Caroline Mesquita. 2019.
  14. Alvim, Diogo. Peça com Vista (Piece with a view). Glosas Magazine; Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre, 2019.
  15. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Super 8 Performance "Sssssss, Tric Tric Tric Tric Tric, Brlblrblrblr Aaahhh!" by Piropeep. 2019.
  16. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Cuore, a play by Soares, Lígia. Première at Walk & Talk Festival, Açores, Portugal. 2018.
  17. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Piropeep, a Super 8 improv performance by Bagulho, Francisca; Gomes, António and Henriques, Manuel. Première at Open Air Cinema - Cineclube, Tavira, Portugal (Jul. 2018). 2018.
  18. Alvim, Diogo. Music for A Bag and a Stone, a film by Carvalho, Tânia. Première at Teatro Municipal Maria Matos, Lisboa, Portugal (Feb. 2018); Presented at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France (May 2018); Centro Cultural Vila Flôr, Guimarães, Portugal (Apr. 2018); Teatro Viriato, Viseu, Portugal (Nov. 2018); Cinemateca Portuguesa (Mar 2019); Cinetratro Avenida, Castelo Branco (Nov 2019). 2018.
  19. Alvim, Diogo. Music for S, a choreography by Carvalho, Tânia. Première by National Dance Company/ Portuguese Symphony Orchestra at Teatro Camões, Lisboa, Portugal (Feb.-Mar. 2018); Presented at Teatro Rivoli, Porto, Portugal (Sep. 2018). 2018.
  20. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Doesdicon, a choreography by Carvalho, Tânia. Première by Inclusive Dance Company at Teatro Viriato, Viseu, Portugal (May 2017); Presented at Mudas - Contemporary Art Museum, Madeira, Portugal (Jun. 2017); Guarda City Theatre, Ovar Art Centre and Torres Vedras City Theatre, Portugal (May 2018). 2017.
  21. Alvim, Diogo. Contraponto, an audiovisual essay for wrongwrong.net magazine. wrongwrong.net magazine, 2017.
  22. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Glimpse - 5 Room Puzzle, a choreography by Carvalho, Tânia. Première at Kalp Maison Pour La Danse, Marseille, France (Apr. 2016); Presented at New Age New Time Festival - Teatro Viriato, Viseu, Portugal (Nov. 2016); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (Jan. 2017); Teatro Municipal Maria Matos, Lisboa, Portugal (Jan. 2017). 2016.
  23. Alvim, Diogo. Tlumaczenie. Première by the Royal String Quartet at Sonorities Festival, Sonic Lab - SARC, Belfast, United Kingdom (Apr. 2015). 2015.
  24. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Pastiche, a choreography by Antunes, Luiz and Diogo Matias, Sérgio. Première at Temps d'Images Festival, Lisboa, Portugal (Dec. 2014); Presented at Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal (Jun. 2015); New Age New Time Festival, Viseu, Portugal (Nov. 2015). 2014.
  25. Alvim, Diogo. Apartamento em Lisboa (Narrador Presente). Première at Ibrasotope, São Paulo, Brazil (Apr. 2014); Presented at Invisible Places Symposium, Viseu, Portugal (Jul. 2014); Streamed by radioCona:ZimaFM, Slovenia (Feb. 2015). 2014.
  26. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Play. 2014.
  27. Alvim, Diogo. Travelogue #1. Première at Musica Viva Festival - Teatro São Luiz, Lisboa, Portugal (Dec. 2013); Presented at Ibrasotope, São Paulo, Brazil (Apr. 2014); BEAST FEaST 2015, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (May 2015). 2013.
  28. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Problema Técnico, a play by Soares, Andresa. Première at Fábrica Asa, Guimarães, Portugal (Jul. 2012); Teatro São Luiz, Lisboa, Portugal (May 2013). 2012.
  29. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Sax and Boxes. Première at Sonic Lab - Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, United Kingdom (May 2012); Presented at ISMIR 2012 - Mosteiro de São Vento da Vitória, Porto, Portugal (Oct. 2012). 2012.
  30. Alvim, Diogo. Music for 27 Bones, a choreography by Carvalho, Tânia. Première at Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France (May 2012); Presented at Felgueiras Casa das Artes, Portugal (Mar. 2013) and Guimarães Cultural Centre (Apr. 2013) ; La Alhóndiga, Bilbao, Spain (May 2015);. 2012.
  31. Alvim, Diogo. Inside Out. With Schroeder, Franziska (sax), Première at Sonic Lab - Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, United Kingdom (May 2012); Presented at Deptford Town Hall, London, United Kingdom (Oct. 2013); with Waters, Simon (flute) at Sonic Lab, SARC, Belfast, United Kingdom (Jan. 2014). 2012.
  32. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Icosahedron, a choreography by Carvalho, Tânia. Première at Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal (Apr. 2011); Presented at Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France (May 2011); Tanz Im August, Berlin, Germany (Aug. 2011); Tanz Quartier, Vienna, Austria (Mar. 2012); Uzès Danse, France (Jun. 2012); Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, Spain (Nov. 2012); And more. 2011.
  33. Alvim, Diogo. Paralaxe. With Francisco, Ana (flute), Première at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Portugal (Oct. 2011). 2011.
  34. Alvim, Diogo. Music for Como Rebolar Alegremente sobre um Vazio Exterior, a play directed by visual artist André Guedes and theatre director/actor Miguel Loureiro. Première at Alkantara Festival, Lisboa, Portugal (May 2010); Presented at Teatro Carlos Alberto, Porto, Portugal (May 2010). 2010.
  35. Alvim, Diogo. Études d'après MIDI. With Filipe Cruz, Carlos (piano), Première at Teatro São Luiz, Lisboa, Portugal (May 2009). 2009.
  36. Alvim, Diogo. Shift (Commissioned by Portuguese Radio Antena 2 for the Young Musicians Award 2009). AVA Editions, 2009.
  37. Alvim, Diogo. Pentacorde. With Grupo de Música Contemporânea ESML (Conductor Roque, Alberto), Première at Teatro São Luiz, Lisboa, Portugal (May 2008). 2008.
  38. Alvim, Diogo. Distância (Ocupação_3). Première at Novos Ciclos por Segundo - Miso Music, Lisboa, Portugal (2008); Presented at Synthese, 39th International Festival of Electronic Musics and Creation, Bourges, France (2009). 2008.
  39. Alvim, Diogo. Concatenação. With Gulbenkian Orchestra (Conductor Carneiro, Joana), Première as part of the 7th Gulbenkian Workshop for young composers - Gulbenkian Foundation Main Auditorium, Lisboa, Portugal (2008). 2008.
  40. Alvim, Diogo. Miniature Pieces for Piano. With Menezes, Marta (piano), Première at Teatro São Luiz, Lisboa, Portugal (May 2007). 2007.
  41. Alvim, Diogo. Pequeno Concerto para Clarinete e Paisagem. With Gulbenkian Orchestra (Clarinet Georgie, Esther; Conductor Carneiro, Joana), Première as part of the 6th Gulbenkian Workshop for young composers - Gulbenkian Foundation Main Auditorium, Lisboa, Portugal (2007); Streamed at the International Rostrum of Composers (Unesco), Paris, France (2009). 2007.
Musical performance
  1. Music for "The Future of Forgetfulness", solo concert at Galeria Imago. 2024.
  2. Live music for "um ano a flor", a performance by Sofia Dinger at Teatro do Bairro Alto. 2024.
    Other
  3. "Peça com Vista" expanded version by Claudio de Pina at Musica Viva Festival. 2024.
  4. Matilde Meireles. "Campo Próximo, Sonic Lab" at Sonorities Festival, SARC, Belfast. 2024.
    Other
  5. "Peça com Vista" performed by Larry Axelrod at "New Music - Chicago". 2023.
  6. "Jogo Duplo" concert at Musica Viva Festiva, Lisbon. 2023.
    Other
  7. "Posição Relativa" at The Architecture of Sounds concert, Centro de Arte Moderna - Fundação Gulbenkian. 2023.
    Other
  8. "Posição Relativa" concert at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa. 2023.
    Other
  9. "Peça com Vista" Première by Larry Axelrod. 2022.
    Other
  10. "Different Takes" Live Music performance at Boom Festival. 2022.
  11. Matilde Meireles. Campo Próximo, Panteão, concerto with Matilde Meireles for Festival Lisboa Soa. 2020.
    Other
  12. Meireles, Matilde. Campo Próximo, concert format, with Matilde Meireles. 2020.
    Other
  13. Vaz, Sara; Balesteros, Marco. "Sopa-Concerto-Caractere", Sound performance at ZDB Gallery, Lisboa. 2019.
    Other
  14. Alvim, Diogo; Ricardo Jacinto. "Da Nova Arte de Fazer Ruínas" by Beatriz Cantinho. 2019.
  15. "Sssssss, Tric Tric Tric Tric Tric, Brlblrblrblr Aaahhh!" Live Music for a Super8 performance by Piropeep at FICLO, Festival Internacional de Cinema e Literatura de Olhão. 2019.
  16. "Apartamento em Lisboa" at Musica Viva Festival. 2018.
  17. Material Music - Sound and image perfomance after a work by Guerreiro, Ramiro (Portable Structures for Potential Gatherings) for the exhibition The House of Dust. CNEAI, Pantin, France.. 2017.
    Other
  18. Alvim, Diogo. Desk Job. Sound and image perfomance after the text “On Translation” by Paul Ricoeur, and based on graphic scores by several Spanish composers from the 60-70’s. Performed at Do Liminar#6, Zaratan gallery, Lisboa, Portugal (Dec. 2016). 2016.
  19. The Pyramid and the Labyrinth - Concert at MAC-USP São, Paulo, Brazil. 2014.
  20. "Apartamento em Lisboa (Narrador Presente)" Prèmiere at "Ibrasotope", São Paulo, Brazil. 2014.
  21. "Travelogue #1" at "Ibrasotope", São Paulo Brazil. 2014.
  22. "Travelogue #1" - Première at Musica Viva Festival. 2013.
  23. Ricardo Jacinto; Nuno Morão. Rocking Piece ‘Excited Version’ (2013) at EMS2013, Culturgest, Lisboa. 2013.
  24. "Atraso #2", a interdisciplinary work by Ricardo Jacinto at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 2013.
  25. "Travelogue #1" at BEAST FEaST 2015, The University of Birmingham, UK. 2013.
  26. Alvim, Diogo; Patrício, Eduardo ; Chaves, Rui. Come Across. Performed at The Global Composition Conference, Dieburg, Germany (Jul. 2012); Sonorities Festival, Belfast, United Kingdom (Apr. 2013); at ECOS programme - Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Portugal (Sep. 2013). 2013.
    Other
  27. Alvim, Diogo; Patrício, Eduardo; Chaves, Rui. No Chords Attached. Performed at ICMC 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Sep. 2012). 2012.
  28. Alvim, Diogo; Schroeder, Franziska. Music for Sax and Boxes. Performed at Sonic Lab - Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, United Kingdom (May 2012) and at ISMIR Conference 2012 - Mosteiro de São Vento da Vitória, Porto, Portugal (Oct. 2012). 2012.
  29. Alvim, Diogo; Patrício, Eduardo; Rebelo, Pedro; Chaves, Rui. Games Arcade. Performed at Network Music Festival, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Jan. 2012) and at the ICMC 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Sep. 2012). 2012.
    Other
Script
  1. Alvim, Diogo; Botelho, Inês. Ladrão de Barulhos. 2021.
  2. Alvim, Diogo; Meireles, Matilde. Play. 2014.
Sound design
  1. Yael Karavan e Naomi Silman (Writer / Producer). 2023. Homenagem.
  2. Joana Braga and Diogo Alvim (Writer / Producer). 2023. "Os Passos em Volta - Alcântara" Sound for a performative walk for Festival Temps d'Image.
  3. Joana Braga e Diogo Alvim (Writer / Producer). 2022. Os Passos em Volta - Trafaria.
  4. Lígia Soares, Rita Vilhena, Diogo Alvim (Writer / Producer). 2017. Turning Backs.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/05/15 Masterclass - sound composition for moving and fixed image - a case study. Semana do Som 2025
Universidade Lusófona (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/11/15 "Noise and Atmosphere in my recent work" "Cross Disciplinar Notes”, part of the Bilateral Research Fund Program PARSUK/FCT 2024, "Affective Noise: Atmospherics of the State of the Nation,"
ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/11/07 Towards a Situated Composition ENIM - XIII ENCONTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM MÚSICA
SPIM - Portuguese Society of Music Research (Faro, Portugal)
2024/04/11 Presentation of post PhD works Sonorities Festival - SARC 20 Years talk
SARC - Centre for interdisciplinary research in sound and music (Belfast, United Kingdom)
2022/06/10 Música através da Arquitectura - Contributos para uma Pratica Expandida da Composição Semana da Composição da ESML
Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa IPL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/04/11 Game and Spatialization in a Situated Musical Composition ENIM - XI ENCONTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM MÚSICA, Aveiro, 2022.
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2019/10/10 Composing with real world programmes. Tracking the Creative Process in Music, 5th Edition
CESEM, INET, IRCAM (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/04/13 Trigger Place - A Game of Sound and Architecture 9th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research
University of Plymouth (Plymouth, United Kingdom)
2017/04/21 Trabalho de Mesa (Desk Job) Dois acontecidos happenings & outras performatividades
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humana (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 String Quartet - Reconfiguring an Old Typology "Old is New" International Conference
NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/11/29 Trigger Place - A Game of Music and Architecture (with Matilde Meireles) Musica Nova International Conference 2015
Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Brno, Czech Republic)
2015/11/21 About Tlumaczenie for string quartet Compôr a Escuta
Sociedade de Instrução Guilherme Cossoul (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/05/18 Trigger Place - A Game of Music and Architecture (with Matilde Meireles) Soundspace, Postgraduate Student Symposium
"Recomposing the City", Queen's University Belfast (Belfast, United Kingdom)
2015/05/02 Trigger Place - A Game of Music and Architecture (with Matilde Meireles) BEAST FEaST 2015: Music – Space – Architecture – Place
University of Birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2015/04/17 Music Through Architecture - a few experimental works Mind the Gap! A national workshop on practice based PhD research in the creative, media and visual arts
National College of Art & Design (Dublin, Ireland)
2015/02/20 Composing Spaces of Inquiry Compositional Aesthetics and the Political
Goldsmith’s University (London, United Kingdom)
2014/12/04 Composition Beyond the Score Espacios Sonoros
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2014/03/06 Music and Architecture - Towards a Shared Approach Composition in the 21st Century
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
2013/10/19 Playing Notated Space Notation in Contemporary Music: Composition, Performance, Improvisation
Goldsmith’s University (London, United Kingdom)
2013/07/11 Music and Architecture - Towards a Shared Approach (Poster presentation) Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards interdisciplinary music studies
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2012/07/28 Come Across (video version as a poster presentation) The Global Composition Conference
Hochschule Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/11/01 - Current Entre Formas e Sons: A Água como Meio Expressivo e Sensível
Supervisor
 Artes do Som e da Imagem (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2023 - Current Caminho da Memória - Uma Viagem Cinematográfica Além do Tempo, Guiada Pela Luz do Sol: Desvendando a Magia da Luz do Sol na Transformação Cinematográfica das Memórias
Supervisor
 Artes do Som e da Imagem (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2022 - Current Dicionário Sonoro
Supervisor
 Artes do Som e da Imagem (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2022 - Current "Sofia"
Co-supervisor
 Artes do Som e da Imagem (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2020 - 2022/11/11 A Introdução da Música Experimental no Ensino Artístico Especializado
Co-supervisor
 Ensino de Música (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas, Portugal
2015/01 - 2015 Espaços sonoros: proposta para escola de música na Cartuxa de Lisboa
Co-supervisor of Varela, João Pedro Campino
 Architecture (Master)
Universidade de Évora Escola de Artes, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/11/05 - 2021/11/05 Artistic Research Workshop - Integrated in the "Expansive Territories" Research Project, this intended to question and deepen artistic research methodologies, as well as frame creative processes as research processes. The workshop was guided by the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Artistic Research, Michael Schwab, and had the participation of members of the OSSO collective, members of the Laboratory for Research in Design and Arts at ESAD (LIDA), and students of the Master in Fine Arts also from ESAD. (2021/11/05 - 2021/11/05)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2021/05 - 2021/11 Artistic Residency in 3 periods with invited researcher Joana Braga: an in-depth reflection on the local territory, its rural and urban configurations, communities and socio-spatial dynamics. Culminated in an essay entitled "Grafts/ Excerpts" (E(n)xertos), a contribution to a deeper framing of OSSO’s transdisciplinary project in the territorial context. (2021/05)
Other (Co-organisor)
2020 - 2020 Open Call for the Artistic Research Residencies (Osso Cultural Association) (2020)
Call (Co-organisor)
2016/05/01 - 2018/03/01 Artistic direction and production of Underscore Festival (see projects) (2017/06/13 - 2017/06/17)
Festival (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/08 - Current Artistic Research Residency with Piropeep collective at Spongé Lab, Vilnius, Lithuania (EU "Culture Moves Europe" funding programme)
2019/12/12 - Current "Scoring the City" - Workshop at the intersection of urbanism and experimental music that takes inspiration from graphic scores in music as dynamic forms that could offer new ways of notating the relationship between design ideas, built form, and social life. "Soncities" Research Proj. (Univ. of Oxford and Theatrum Mundi; ERC No. 865032) http://scoring.city/actions/scoring-paris/
Workshop
 Scoring the City
University of Oxford Faculty of Music, United Kingdom

Theatrum Mundi, United Kingdom
2024/11/16 - 2024/11/16 Open roundtable about the installation "O Futuro do Esquecimento" by Tânia Moreira David and Diogo Alvim, with guest Susana Mouzinho.
Other
 O Futuro do Esquecimento
2018/04/29 - 2018/05/28 Artistic Residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, for the creation of a new work (in the Desk Job series). Integrated in the Programme CHANTIERS D’EUROPE. Support: the City of Paris, (residency program of the Cité international des arts); Théâtre de la Ville – Paris (Chantiers d’Europe), and CESEM. https://www.theatredelaville-paris.com/en/spectacles/saison-2017-2018/temps-forts/desk-job
Festival
 CHANTIERS D’EUROPE, Théâtre de da Ville
Théâtre de la Ville, France

Cité Internationale des Arts, France
2017/04/13 - 2017/04/13 Participation in Russolo's Intonarumori Orchestra by Luciano Chessa.
Concert
 Luciano Chessa & the Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners
Teatro Municipal Maria Matos, Portugal
2017/01/07 - 2017/01/08 Artistic Residency with the Mixed Music Lab from Lisbon Music College. Coordenated by Carlos Caires and José Luís Ferreira
Workshop
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Portugal

Associação Cultural Miso Music Portugal, Portugal
2014/04 - 2014/05 Artistic residency at the Centro Cultural São Paulo and MAC / USP on Sound and Architecture NuSom Research Group - São Paulo University
2013/06/17 - 2013/06/21 "Peça de embalar, excited version", a piece by Jacinto Ricardo, performed at Culturgest in Lisbon, as part of the Conference EMS13
Concert
 EMS 13 - Electroacoustic Music in the context of interactive approaches and networks
EMS - Electroacoustic Music Studios Network, France
2013 - 2013 Sound composition course “Composer's Desktop Project” by Trevor Wishart, at Miso Music
Seminar
Associação Cultural Miso Music Portugal, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Sound spatialisation course with the Miso Music’s Loudspeaker Orchestra by Miguel Azguime.
Seminar
Associação Cultural Miso Music Portugal, Portugal
2010/12 - 2010/12 Artistic residency with visual artist Inês Botelho on Sound and Space. Held at the Drawing Spaces, Fábrica do Braço de Prata, Lisboa.
Other
 Rotação e Inflexão
Espaços do Desenho - Teresa Carneiro, Portugal
2009/05/29 - 2009/06/06 Presentation of the music piece Distância (Ocupação_3).
Concert
 Synthese, 39th International Festival of Electronic Musics and Creation
IMEB - Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France
2009/02/09 - 2009/02/14 Composition Seminar with Emmanuel Nunes
Seminar
 Composition Seminar with Emmanuel Nunes
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2009 - 2009 6th Gulbenkian Orchestra’s Workshop for Young Composers, with conductor Joana Carneiro
Workshop
 6th Gulbenkian Orchestra’s Workshop for Young Composers
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Composition Seminar with Emmanuel Nunes
Seminar
 Composition Seminar with Emmanuel Nunes
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2008 - 2008 6th Gulbenkian Orchestra’s Workshop for Young Composers, with conductor Joana Carneiro
Workshop
 6th Gulbenkian Orchestra’s Workshop for Young Composers
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/07/13 ARTE SONORA E TRANSDISCIPLINARIDADE: Processos criativos, DMIs, mineração de dados e sonificação.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 NIKOLAS GOMES FERRANDDIS (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2018/06/25 Ludus 2.x - Do Brincar à Música. Designing and building a musical instrument for children.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Paulo Eduardo Vanzeler Oliveira (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2017 - 2022 Osso Cultural. Artist collective/ cultural non-profit association based in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal Associated Artist /Direction (2020-2022)
2017 - 2018 Underscore - Cultural Association Co-director

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024 - 2025/05/09 NCMM - Nova Contemporary Music Meeting 2025 NOVA FCSH
2024/06/27 - 2024/06/29 EIMAD 2024 – International Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
2024/05/27 - 2024/05/29 Noise Floor 2024 Department of Music and Sound at Staffordshire University, Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa
2022/11/10 - 2022/11/12 ENIM - XI ENCONTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM MÚSICA SPIM - Portuguese Society of Music Research, Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) of the University of Aveiro and the Institute of Ethnomusicology, Centre for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md, Aveiro branch),
2020/05/14 - 2020/05/16 EIMAD 2020 – International Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas of the Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal.

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021 - 2022 Consulting for the Music Museum at the Mafra National Palace, architecture project by Site-Specific Architects.
2017/01 - 2017/03 Consulting and managing the production of historically informed performances for an award winning 18th century period TV show, for the National Television (RTP).

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/01 - 2019/04/29 Music Composition tutoring for a group of composition students, a project by BOCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts. (Outros) BOCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Portugal
2017/03/18 - 2017/03/19 Workshop "Quem és quando achas que ninguém está a ver" with Catarina Botelho Photography and Sound (Outros) BOCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2024/06 - Current Member of the Evaluation Panel (Arts) for PhD applications.
Evaluator
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/05/13 - Current Música de Invenção e Pesquisa - (Music of Invention and Research), National Radio (Antena 2) Música de Invenção e Pesquisa
2022/05/05 - Current Fora de Pé Talks to architects who did not follow the traditional path of the profession.
2022 - Current Topografias Imaginárias Sound of the city in Cinema II - "O Fantasma", by João Pedro Rodrigues
2019/09/06 - Current Musica Hoje (Music today) - Program dedicated to new Portuguese music Contemporary Music

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/11/30 - 2021/01/11 Journal for Artistic Research (2235-0225) Society for Artistic Research
2019/08/07 - 2019/09/13 Journal for Artistic Research (2235-0225) Society for Artistic Research
Distinctions

Other distinction

2018 Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition (with Matilde Meireles)
Society for Artistic Research, Netherlands