MUSISTAS

The MUSISTAS project, short for traditional music at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) at the service of Social Action, proposes the development and application of a program that uses musical literacy to stimulate and create synergies between two minority and vulnerable groups in the IST community: i) the senior community (> 60 years) ; ii) the community of students from Portuguese-speaking countries, namely from emerging countries. This project was developed by Luís Sanfins and Henrique Granja, Master students from Chemical and Aero-space Engineering, respectively, together with assistant professor Pedro Serrão and Ana Fragoso, an administrative staff from IST. The group intends to: i) develop a platform that allows the provision and management of content that promotes musical literacy and encourages the participation of the senior IST community; ii) involve the two communities in the collection of musical identities of a traditional nature, seeking to cover the greatest possible geographical diversity, and to develop a musical proto-instrument that is unifying and representative of the traditions of the countries involved; iii) create a repertoire of musicalities that stimulates activities within the IST community but also promotes other academic communities, strengthening geographic and academic ties.