World New Music Magazine #31 – Portugal 2025

Editor-in-Chief: Magnus Bunnskog (ISCM Executive Committee and ISCM Swedish Section)

Editorial Board: Miguel Azguime, Paula Azguime, Jakub Szczypa

Printing and Layout: Anna Klint

ARTICLES

Miguel Azguime, “ISCM World New Music Days 2025 – ‘Thirst for Change’ – A Long Journey!”
Miguel Azguime, “Listening to the Earth: Spectral Music, ‘A Laugh to Cry’ and Ecological Activism”
Pedro Boléo, “Miso Music and Contemporary Portuguese Music: 40 Years of Creativity and Freedom”
António Ferreira, “History of Electroacoustic Music in Portugal: a Reload”
Manuel Pedro Ferreira, “On Music in Portugal in the 20th Century”
Glenda Keam, “Reflections on WNMD 2025 from the outgoing ISCM President”
Filipa Magalhães, “The Musical Theatres of Constança Capdeville”
Andreia Nogueira, “On the Edge of a Crucial Change: Playing with the Future of Today’s Art Music, Between Creation and Conservation”
Frank J. Oteri, “The Unquenchable Thirst – Reconciling ‘The New’ with ‘History’ for Nine Days in Portugal”
Cláudio de Pina, “The Legacy of Portuguese Historical Organs in Contemporary Music”
Pedro Prista, “Art Creation in the Anthropocene”
Jakub Szczypa, “Music Without Borders. Portugal at the ISCM World New Music Days”
Ana Telles, “Art Music in Portugal in the Turn of the 21st Century”

PREVIOUS ISCM WORLD NEW MUSIC DAYS REPORTS

Trudy Chan, “The Faroese Daily Dish” (2024 Faroe Islands)
Ed McKeon, “The Contemporary Beyond Globalization” (2023 South Africa)
Simon Eastwood, “Overcoming Distances” (2022 New Zealand)
Peng Rongxin, “A Historic Milestone: the 2023 ISCM WNMD in South Africa”
Anna Veismane, “Between Norway and Iceland, Tonality and Atonality (2024 Faroe Islands)

This issue of World New Music Magazine is also available as a physical publication printed by KOPA Printing House (Biruliškės, Lithuania) which has been produced with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal.