ISCM WORLD NEW MUSIC DAYS 2025 IN PORTUGAL
PRESENTATION & THEME
World New Music Days 2025.
A global stage for music, invites us to listen to the times we live in and to glimpse into the future. An initiative of the International Society for Contemporary Music, organized by Miso Music Portugal in celebration of its 40th anniversary.
From May 30 to June 7, under the theme "Thirst for Change", the festival calls on artists and audiences alike to rethink the role of creation in a world in transformation, a call for change, where music awakens new perspectives on the urgent challenges facing our planet. A regenerative force of art music in times of change.
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World New Music Days 2025.
Um palco global para a música convida-nos a escutar o tempo em que vivemos e perscrutar o futuro. Uma iniciativa da International Society for Contemporary Music, organizada pela Miso Music Portugal no seu 40.º aniversário.
De 30 de maio a 7 de junho, sob o mote “Sede de Mudança”, o festival convida artistas e públicos a repensar o papel da criação num mundo em transformação, num apelo à mudança, onde a música desperta novas perspetivas para os desafios urgentes do nosso planeta. Um força regeneradora da arte musical em tempos de transformação.
Junte-se a esta celebração!
THEME “THIRST FOR CHANGE”
curator Pedro Prista, anthropologist
O Antropoceno trouxe-nos ao limiar da nossa própria negação. É nesta condição extrema que de novo o Novo ressurge, agora. Imperativo e sequioso da própria mudança que cria.
Este é um colóquio para pensar e debater a sede de todas as mudanças; um colóquio sobre a criação depois do Antropoceno.
The Anthropocene has brought us to the threshold of our denial. It is in this extreme condition that the New resurges now. Imperative and thirsty for the very change it creates.
This is a colloquium to think about and debate that thirst for change, for all changes. A colloquium on creation after the Anthropocene.
In addition to the new music context, the ISCM World New Music Days 2025 in Portugal will have an environmental dimension emphasized through the theme “Thirst for Change.” This theme will join ecological policy with artistic expression and evoke the significant dilemma our “blue planet” faces – growth or life? Water is a crucial element in this equation, especially in Portugal, where its lack and evaporation increasingly threaten the population. How can humanity tackle this pressing issue?
The ISCM World New Music Days festival, with its rich history and global reach, can encourage this reflection, and the WNMD 2025 in Portugal is the perfect opportunity to dedicate space and time to the water issue and agenda. Music is not just sound and silence. It reflects the pulse of the societies, carrying our deepest concerns, fears, and aspirations. The climate crisis needs more than mere political changes or technological solutions. It requires a universal emotional understanding – a call to collective consciousness. Here, artistic and music creation can make a difference.