A studio for electroacoustic composition
Studio PANaroma is an electroacoustic composition studio affiliated with Unesp – and therefore part of the context of free public education –, devoted to new, contemporary, speculative — or, as Theodor W. Adorno would say, radical — music, a designation that in Brazil usually corresponds to the term contemporary art music.
Its purpose — idealistic, but not utopian — was to establish, within a free public university, an electroacoustic composition studio able to offer young composers in art music composition programs, as well as guest composers, professional-level training in one of the central axes of contemporary musical composition: electroacoustic music, with or without acoustic instruments, with or without real-time electronic transformation.
idealistic, but not utopian
What the founding made possible
Building on that foundation, it became possible for the first time in Brazil to create and accredit — at Unesp — the Bachelor of Music with a Major in Composition and an Emphasis in Electroacoustic Composition, as well as to establish the country's first graduate program allowing a thesis or dissertation devoted to electroacoustic composition.
Studio PANaroma is thus a center for research and composition dedicated specifically to electroacoustic music, with a national and international standing consolidated over the course of more than 30 years.