TECER | CTR 2025
Real Time Composition [CTR] is mainly known (and transmitted) as a ‘tool’ for composition and improvisation, based on the principles and premises that João Fiadeiro has been developing since the 1990s, based on his practice as a choreographer, researcher and pedagogue. This dimension, which we can call the ‘matrix approach’, translates into the establishment of a work ethic and the systematisation of a language, with principles, premises and strict criteria that can be consulted here.
But it also manifests itself in multiple ways, through the way in which different artists, researchers and facilitators have appropriated it, emphasised certain aspects and not others, and extracted possibilities and ways of using it that result in different ways of experiencing it, as a result of their unique experiences and sensitivities to the proposal. This cohabitation of forces (centrifugal and centripetal) to approach the same body of work, as well as having the advantage of feeding back on each other, protects CTR from being ‘captured’ by the temptation to close itself off or fix itself as a ‘method’, in the etymological sense of ‘truth’ or a single path.
TECER | CTR
The TECER | CTR programme for 2025 will reflect this positioning by offering the artistic community different ways of accessing this tool, both in terms of its multiple contents and through its workloads.
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One-week workshops, after working hours (18h00-21h00)
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- Márcia Lança / 24th to 28th March
- Carolina Campos / 28 April to 2 May
- Daniel Pizamiglio / 26th to 30th May
- Gustavo Sumpta / 23rd to 27th June
- Cláudia Dias / 28 July to 1 August
CTR_summer
From 25th to 30th August (14h00-19h00)
With the participation of Márcia Lança and João Gonçalo Lopes, João Fiadeiro will lead an intensive CTR workshop focussing on the concept of ‘prepared space’ (like John Cage’s ‘prepared piano’), which will function as a territory for exploring and experimenting with Real-Time Composition.
CTR open sessions
Every Monday (18h00-20h00)
Sessions open to the community, facilitated by João Fiadeiro, Márcia Lança and Daniel Pizamiglio.
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From 29th September to 31st October 2025 (14h00-19h00)
Advanced research and experimentation course with the Real Time Composition tool.
General Note
For those wishing to take part in any of our CTR transmission and practice programmes
Even though we are committed to creating a safe place of practice, sustained by a work ethic based on principles of care and mutual respect, the experience of improvisation and performance, by definition, can take performers to places of intense sharing, often vulnerable and emotionally charged, where doubt and error have a prominent place. When signing up, bear in mind that in this practice you may find yourself in situations of experimentation that shake up your comfort zones, even if only temporarily.