ABSTRACT

This text presents part of the developments regarding the relationship between PASEV: Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscape and Museu Nacional Frei Manuel do Cenáculo. Specifically concerning an activity for children up to twelve years old, as an interactive game with multiple musical significant checkpoints. Each iconographic point possesses a small music fragment attached to it, built-in to each individual iconographic representation, that culminate, after the final stage of the game, in a short composition in which the multiple musical fragments are arranged following the order of the checkpoints discovered by the players, creating a distinct and personal reward. Considering the game itself, designed to expand and enhance aesthetical sensibility, the players will leave with an individual final product – composed by the author by following the developments of open-form practices and cryptographic techniques – that came to be by their own efforts throughout this musical iconographic tour, by means of an unusual, yet unique, approach to music composition.

KEYWORDS

Composition, Iconography, Pedagogy, Cryptography, Soundscapes.