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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Guillermo de Llera Blanes

Citation names

  • Blanes, Guillermo
  • de Llera Blanes, Guillermo
  • Blanes, G. de L.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9B17-ADF4-00F6
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2276-9526

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09/10 - 2025/09/25
Concluded
 On Playability Theory and Remixing: Exploring Controllerism through the creation of the MidiMbira in Mozambique (Doutoramento)
Major in Ethnomusicology
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH), Portugal
"On Playability Theory and Remixing: Exploring Controllerism through the creation of the MidiMbira in Mozambique" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 A+ / With Honours / Com Distinção
2014/09/01 - 2018/05/01
Concluded
 Ciências Musicais - Área da Especialização em Etnomusicologia (Mestrado)
Major in Ethnomusicology
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH), Portugal
"Controllers as musical instruments, controllerism as musical practice - practices of a new 21st century musical culture" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19.3/20
2013/04/10 - 2013/09/28
Concluded
 Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools (Título de especialista)
Berklee College Of Music, United States
 GPA 4.0
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018 - Current Music Acoustics and Sound Studies Department Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
2017/12/01 - Current Assistant lecturer for the "World Music Composition Styles" class Berklee College Of Music, United States
2017/09/01 - Current Investigador Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - Current Researcher Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/01 - 2023/12 PhD Scholarship
77915DFA
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/06/01 - 2019/06/30 Timbila, Makwayela and Marrabenta: one century of musical representation of Mozambique
Provided by PTCRIS: 145268
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/06/01 - 2019/06/30 Timbila, Makwayela and Marrabenta: one century of musical representation of Mozambique
PTDC/CPC-MMU/6626/2014
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Blanes, Guillermo. "The mobility of music: analysis and considerations concerning music and mobility today". In LOG IN, LIVE ON Música e Cibercultura na Era da Internet das Coisas, 67-96. Portugal: CESEM, Edições Húmus, Lda., 2019.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Blanes, Guillermo. "Stories of the Field that Usually Go Untold: They Hit, But They Didn’t Run". Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology 19.2 “Ethnomusicology Now” 19 2 (2023): https://risingvoicesjournal.com/192-de-llera-blanes.
    Open access • Published
  2. Guillermo de Llera Blanes. "Trek to Everest Base Camp: (Re)composing a Sound-Trek and (Re)experiencing as Soundscape Remix". Cadernos de arte e antropologia Vol. 10, N (2021): 71-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/cadernosaa.3864.
    10.4000/cadernosaa.3864
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Blanes, Guillermo. "Controllers as Musical Instruments, Controllerism as Musical Practice – Practices of a new 21st Century musical culture". Master, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/45945.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Midi-Mbira: Interactive Audio-Visual Art Installation. 2024.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/06/17 Visualizing Ethnomusicological Narratives: A Graphic Novel Approach to Fieldwork and Autoethnography in Mozambique VII Internation Conference COMbART. Art, activism and citizenship
NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/11/18 Independência Musical na "Chamada" Transição Digital - Desafios Fo´rum do inet-md, Aveiro
INET-MD, NOVA - FCSH (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/07/22 The MidiMbira - Performative applications of a Musical Hyper-Instrument ICTM World Conference - Portugal
ICTM (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/06/13 Working with Mbira Makers in Maputo, Mozambique Dialogue of African musics and cultures through space and time ICTM - 3rd SGAM Symposium
SGAM
2021/06/26 Challenging Centric Imaginaries in Contemporary Music Studio Practices Transformations of Musical Creativity in the 21st Century - TTI Conference - Turkey
Transtraditional Istanbul (TTI) Project (Istambul, Turkey)
2021/05/07 Social Mediums in Lusophonia - Notes from Afro-Portuguese Underground Imaginaries International Symposium Musics in Africa (ISMA 21)
INET-MD, NOVA - FCSH, ISMA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/12/06 Working with Mbira Makers in Maputo The International Symposium Musics in Africa- Listening to Mozambique (ISMA19)
INET-MD, NOVA - FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/10/07 The Mobility of Music - Analysis and considerations concerning music and mobility Today LOG IN, LIVE ON: MÚSICA E CIBERCULTURA NA ERA DA INTERNET DAS COISAS
FCSH/NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
Distinctions

Award

2015 BOLSAS POR MÉRITO 2015/2016 DGES - Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior - CIÊNCIA, TECNOLOGIA E ENSINO SUPERIOR
Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Portugal