LLS Research

The research developed at LLS is directed towards an interdisciplinary approach. Besides music composition, the laboratory carries projects in the following areas: psychoacoustic investigation, time and tempo, vocal poetry, oral culture, and radio discourse. At this moment, the following projects are being developed at LLS:

• Electronic and Digital Composition - creation of music composition based on the exploration of new electronic and digital media and development of interactive music systems.
• Vocal Poetry - study of the relations among phonetics, poetry, and singing, as well as the use of new technologies to investigate the possibilities of using the vocal organs to produce both verbal and non-verbal discourse.
• Oral Poetry - collects and analyzes traditional types of folk songs and promotes experimental readings of contemporary texts related to oral forms of culture transmission.
• Multimedia - promotes the interconnection between sound, verbal, and visual languages to produce creative work on media, such as CD-ROM and video.
• Music and Poetry - works on the interconnection and creative re-interpretation between music and poetry.
• Radio Discourse - focuses on the study of expressive reading of different texts and the exploration of the voice as an expressive medium.