André Quaresma

André Quaresma is an Information Systems Engineer (Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Coimbra Institute of Engineering), with a primary research interest in Artificial Intelligence, having conceptualized and implemented an Artificial Life Environment as his final project. He holds a Master's degree in Art Studies (specializing in Musicology) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, having completed the course with distinction and received a merit scholarship. His research focuses on contemporary Portuguese music, with a greater focus on experimentalism. His research begins with the work of Portuguese composer Jorge Lima Barreto (based on the collection donated to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra) and his multidisciplinary approach to musical creation and composition, and expands to the Portuguese music scene that emerged after the Revolution. André Quaresma is also a radio broadcaster, director, and curator (since 2013 at Rádio Universidade de Coimbra), and has published several musical works in original albums and thematic compilations — compositions of digitally manipulated structures and microstructures of concrete recordings. He is a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (where he is integrated into the project Mundos e Fundos - Methodological and interpretative Worlds of Musical Funds) and at the Transdisciplinary Research Center for Culture, Space and Memory of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, collaborating in the KISMIF (Keep It Simple Make It Fast) conferences, an annual event organized by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto with a focus on discussing and sharing information about underground cultures, DIY practices, urban art and other related topics.