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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Raquel Maria Lemos e Castro

Citation names

  • Castro, Raquel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
EB1F-787C-3610
Education
Degree Classification
2008 - 2016
Concluded
 Ciências da Comunicação (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Comunicação e Artes
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Contributos para uma análise da paisagem sonora: som, espaço e identidade acústica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Bom com distinção
2008
Concluded
 Ciências da Comunicação (Mestrado)
Major in Audiovisual e Multimedia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 Muito Bom
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/11 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/02/12 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
2008 - 2014 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal
2009/01/02 - 2012/03/01 Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/31 - Current President World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, United States
2022/02/28 - Current President SONORA Associação Cultural, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/02/11 - 2021/12/31 Aural Experience, Territory and Community
AeCT01/PTDC/COM-CSS/29096/2017
Researcher
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2009/01/01 - 2016/11/12 A Paisagem Sonora de Lisboa - Som, Espaço e Identidade Acústica
SFRH / BD / 44424 / 2008
PhD Student Fellow
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/10/01 - 2021/01/01 Corpo, Espaço e Ressonância / Body, Space and Ressonance
projeto exploratório
Researcher
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Castro, Raquel. "Listening to Geometries". In Installations / Instalações, Miguel Carvalhais Pedro Tudela, 42-49. Porto, Portugal: Cronicaberta Associação Cultural, 2022.
    Published
  2. Castro, Raquel. "Atos de Escuta: arte sonora, do ruído à ecologia". In A Experiência Sonora: da Linearidade à Circularidade. Lisboa, Portugal, 2022.
    Under revision
Edited book
  1. Raquel Castro. Arte Sonora, Ecologia e Cultura Auditiva. Lisboa Soa 2016 - 2020 / Sound Art, Ecology and Auditory Culture. Lisboa Soa 2016-2020. Lisboa, Portugal: Lisboa Soa / Ler Devagar. 2021.
    Published • Editor
  2. Castro, Raquel. Invisible Places Proceedings 2017. Portugal. 2017.
    Published
  3. Invisible Places Proceedings 2014. Portugal. 2014.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Castro, Raquel. "Listening as Activism". Neural Magazine 69 (2021): http://neural.it.
    Published
  2. Castro, Raquel. "Não há Silêncio sem Ruído". Arte e Cultura Visual 1 1 (2020): 23. https://issuu.com/fbaul/docs/arteeculturavisual_1.
    Published
  3. null. "Dos Lugares Invisíveis". Interact, Revista Online de Arte, Cultura e Tecnologia 22-23 (2015): http://interact.com.pt/22/dos-lugares-invisiveis/.
    Open access • Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Castro, Raquel Maria Lemos e. "Contributos para uma análise da paisagem sonora: som, espaço e identidade acústica". PhD, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/57603.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2023. "Sound Art in Public Spaces at Ultima Festival, Oslo, Norway".
  2. 2022. "Sound Art in Public Spaces at The Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece".
  3. 2022. "Sound Art in Public Spaces at SPOR Festival, Aarhus, Denmark".
  4. 2021. "Sound Art in Public Spaces at Festival November Music, Den Bosch, Netherlands".
  5. 2021. "Sound Art in Public Spaces at Festival Wilde Westen, Kortrijk, Belgium".
Program / Show
  1. Castro, Raquel. 2021. "SOA NA RTP2: SOA EP1 - No Princípio era a Vibração / In the Beginning was Vibration; SOA EP2 - Os Ouvidos Não Têm Pálpebras / There are no Earlids; SOA EP3 - O Som e a Cidade / Sound and the City; SOA EP4 - Os Espaços Falam / Spaces Speak; SOA EP5 - Silêncio em Tempos de Crise / Silence in Times of Crisis". SOA: SOA na RTP2. Co-Produção CRIM + Produtores Associados.
Script
  1. Castro, Raquel. SOA. 2020.
  2. Castro, Raquel. Soundwalkers. 2008.
  3. Castro, Raquel. Leve Leve Non Caba Ué. 2007.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/12/14 Between the Audible and the Visible, a reflection on practice-based research centred on SOA Open Class on Sound Design
Universidade de Coimbra
2021/11/10 Revisitando a Escuta: Arte Sonora como Arte Pública / Revisiting Listening: Sound Art as Public Art III Historical Soundscapes Meeting: New Sonorities
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2020/12 Curating Urban Sound Parks: an ambiance perspective Ambiances, Alloæsthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds - 4th International Congress on Ambiances
International Ambiances Network (France)
2020/01/06 O Silêncio como uma Vírgula As Coisas Fundadas no Silêncio
Culturgest (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/10/01 - Current "Creating opportunities for collective music-making in restrictive environments" Practice-based research which intends to develop a methodology for community music collectives to work under different restrictions.
Co-supervisor
 Arte dos Media / Media Art (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016 - Current Festival Lisboa Soa (2016)
Festival (President of the Organising Committee)
2014 - Current Conceção e Organização do simpósio internacional Invisible Places 2014/2017 (2014)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/03/01 - Current Castro was selected from more than 100 applications from all over the world in the international open call "Curator for Sound Art Project", in which she will be responsible for curating sound installations in five European festivals and organizations: Wilde Westen (Belgium), November Music (Netherlands) , Spor Festival (Denmark), Onassis Stegi (Greece) and Ultima Oslo (Norway). Project funded by Creative Europe
Exhibition
 Sound Art in Public Spaces
Sounds Now, Belgium
2020/10/25 - Current Chair at the talk “Sound and Ecology” with Chris Watson, Margarida Mendes and Nuno da Luz, Semibreve festival 2020 Festival Semibreve
2019/11/15 - Current Guest curator at the international meeting promoted by the Tsonami festival “The Role of Sound Art in the Context of Crisis”, Valparaíso, Chile Tsonami Festival
2021/11/12 - 2021/11/12 Sounds Now: Curating inclusion - A panel discussion organised by the New Music Conference that brought together professionals associated with the Sounds Now project. They shared their experiences on curating for inclusion in sound art and contemporary music, and took questions from the audience. with Christos Carras, Raquel Castro, Maud Seuntjens, Monika Zyla
Round table
 New Music Conference
2021/10/06 - 2021/10/06 Round-table with acclaimed curators, directors and researchers of long-standing urban sound and arts projects from around the world to discuss the themes that drive their own work and the changing considerations of urban sounding. Organised to celebrate and reflect upon CRISAP's online exhibition "Acts of Air: Reshaping the urban sonic", with Cathy Lane, Lisa Hall, Raquel Castro, Fernando Godoy, Hardi Kurda, Gascia Ouzounian and Carsten Seiffarth.
Round table
 "Sound, Art and Urban Spaces"
CRISAP - Creative Research Into Sound Arts practice (London College of Communication), United Kingdom

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/05/31 Criação Fitopoética: uma intervenção artística e ecológica
(Thesis) Arguer
 Marisa Alejandra Ponce de León Hernández (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/07 “Acoustic ecology in artistic creation: re-discovering underwater soundscapes”
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Francisca Rocha Gonçalves (PhD)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Portugal
2020/06/05 ESPAÇOS SONOROS: A EXPERIÊNCIA SÓNICA NO CONTEXTO DA ARTE PÚBLICA
(Thesis) Arguer
 José Vasco Carvalho (PhD)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola das Artes, Portugal
2020/05/28 MUSIC FESTIVALS AS CATALYZERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION OF RURAL REGIONS: AN EXPERIENCE WITHIN WAKING LIFE FESTIVAL
(Thesis) Arguer
 Baptiste Maxime Jean Guimiot (Master)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/02/28 - Current Founder and Director of SONORA, Associação Cultural, non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of practice-based research on Sound Art, Ecology and Auditory Culture Presidente da Direção

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/05/05 - Current Lecture “Acts of Listening: Sound Art and Ecology (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2022/01/07 "Raquel Castro quer pôr-nos a pensar sobre o som", entrevista para Ipsilon Público
2018/11/18 Artigo sobre ruído na cidade de Lisboa Jornal Público

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2021/11/29 - Current Ao Vivo, plataforma de streaming do Jornal Público Os sons da cidade ou uma cidade com ruído? Vamos escutar? / City sounds or a noisy city? Let's listen?
2021/03/01 - Current Talk about Sound and Art with Edu Comelles for the program Audiotalaia

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/02/28 - Current Integrated the curatorial team for the online event Unmasking. Experimental Sonic Practices, organized by Medisoup – a community of researchers and artists in the area of sound from Mediterranean areas.
2017/12/05 - 2018/12/30 Membro do júri do programa municipal de apoio à criação artística contemporânea Criatório, da Câmara Municipal do Porto.
Distinctions

Award

2021 SOA selected from the open call "Portuguese Female Filmmakers" to integrate Netflix catalogue. Film premieres on Netflix in 2022.
Academia Portuguesa de Cinema, Portugal

Netflix Inc, United States
2020 Soa - Best Film "Outros Olhares"
2007 Prémio Cidade de Ovar

Title

2023 President of Executive Board
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, United States

Other distinction

2021 SOA nominated for "Best Sound Tools" and "Best Field Sound Recordist" at the Sound of the Year Awards
2021 Invited to chose the theme for the World Listening Day, by the World Listening Project
2021 Sound Art Curator
Sounds Now, Belgium