The body awareness of movement, the musical use of modular synthesis, and the artistic essence of shadows are the themes of the BMA lab cycle for the new season of Circuito - Serviço Educativo Braga Media Arts.

Based on experimentation and creation, the BMA lab cycle is dedicated to the main topics of Media Arts, providing a space for thought and reflection on this theme. In this new season, the initiative presents three new courses that explore, in different ways, the concepts of movement, sound, and light.

BMA lab: Dance of Inert Materials - Relations between music, dance and space
19 Oct | 10:30 a.m. | gnration

The state of body consciousness manifests itself in the relationship between music, dance, and space. Based on the performance ‘Dança de Materiais Inertes #3Movediço’, dancer and choreographer Marta Cerqueira and pianist and composer Simão Costa lead participants in a reflective exercise that evokes ways of sound visualization through mechanical devices.

BMA lab: Inventing music, composing instruments, by Matthias Puech
09 Nov | 10:30 a.m. | gnration

As an extension to his show at gnration, Matthias Puech - French composer, researcher, scientist, and teacher - proposes to analyse how musical aesthetics and technical design influence each other in the context of experimental and electroacoustic music.

BMA lab: Considering the Shadow by Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo
30 Nov | 10:30 a.m. | gnration

Based on their collaborative work ‘Contre Jour’, musician, visual artist, and writer Lee Ranaldo (founding member of Sonic Youth) and photographer and multimedia artist Leah Singer invites the audience on a journey inspired by the work of Portuguese artist Lourdes Castro. Through the work of this duo, the session explores the diversity of the reinterpretation of materials and techniques present in the work of the Portuguese artist.
 

Tickets for all these sessions are available at the Circuito online ticket office. Learn more about each of these BMA labs at bragamediaarts.com/circuito.