Personal Presentation

Carlos Guedes has a multifaceted activity in composition and sound design, counting numerous projects for dance, theatrical performance, film and interactive installations besides conventional concert music. His creative work has been presented mostly in Europe and the United States in several shapes and forms.

Carlos Guedes holds a PhD (2005) and MA (1996) in composition from NYU and a BM (1993) from ESMAE. He lived for three years in the Netherlands where he attended the Institute of Sonology in the Hague between 2001 and 2002.

Since 2003, Carlos Guedes has developed an intense teaching activity in Portugal. He was involved in the reformulation and creation of several degree programs in Portugal in composition and electronic music. Since 2007, he has been working for the UT Austin | Portugal program in Digital Media, where he helped creating the Interactive Music and Sound Design track at University of Porto's Master in Multimedia, and worked on the creation of the curriculum of the Doctoral Program in Digital Media.

Carlos Guedes is a professor in the composition program at ESMAE. He also teaches at FEUP as an adjunct Associate Professor in the Master in Multimedia and in the Doctoral Program in Digital Media from the University of Porto. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Radio Television and Film for the Fall of 2011.  He also works as a researcher at INESC Technology and Science (formerly, INESC Porto) where he co-founded the Sound and Music Computing Group.