Toy Portugal (music score) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494842697)

Tiago Videira is a Creative Mind within the areas of music and literature. He is an academic in the area of Digital Media, specialization in Audiovisual and Interactive Content Creation. He has a Masters in Philosophy - Aesthetics (FCSH, "The Cybernetic Artist: the Status of the Artificial Intelligence in Nowadays Music - Two Case Studies: The Lexikon Sonate and the EMI") and degree in Musicology (FCSH). Tiago composed dozens of musical works ranging from film and animation music to simple solo piano pieces, electroacoustic-ambient works for small ensembles, pop and intervention songs, marches or fados. He previously published the albums and songbooks "I speak through my Piano" and "Dances and Dreams". Tiago is also a fiction writer, having earned the Prize "Young Writers 2006" with the work "Galactic Tales", which was later published. He also took classes with Prof. Alberto Pimenta and dozens of creative texts have been created since then. He collaborated with DN Jovem since 2005 until the extinction of the literary supplement. He also published two other fiction books. As an educator, he was a music teacher in basic schools teaching 5th-8th graders. Tiago was also editorial assistant of the online journal Inside between 2005-2008 and wrote several articles within the areas of music and sports. Additionally, Tiago Videira took part in many workshops and Summer Schools and developed work with names like Prof. Bruce Pennycook (University of Austin), Tomás Henriques or Jaime Reis in the domains of Interactive, Film and Electroacoustic music. He has also been developing his composition skills gradually with the help of Eurico Carrapatoso, Pedro Faria Gomes, Pedro Duarte and Michael Mikulka. Research interests Generative and Interactive Music, Aesthetics of Music, Popular Music, Composition, Performance studies, New Media, Multimedia Arts, Portuguese Music and culture. Further interests & hobbies Music - Computer Science - Literature - European Soccer - Internet -Card Games Independent Cinema - Sitcoms - Gastronomy - Photography