Riccardo Wanke

Riccardo Wanke, is integrated member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies - CEIS20 of University of Coimbra (PT), scientific coordinator of Group 4 "Artistic Practices: Imagination, Materialities and Transitions", Contracted Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUC), University of Coimbra and Polythecnic of Leiria (PT), and PI of the Project “Geometries in Sound” (2024-2030) funded by FCT (2023.08919.CEECIND). He is author of the book Sound in The Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music by Routledge (2021), is a multidisciplinary researcher having completed doctoral and post-doctoral research in two fields: historical musicology (PhD 2013-19; postdoc 2019-22) and chemistry (PhD 2006-10; postdoc 2010-13). Additionally, he has an extensive background as a pianist (having studied traditional and extended techniques, harmony, and composition for over 10 years), multi-instrumentalist (proficient in saxophone, guitar, modular synthesizers, and prepared instruments), performer (with over 20 music releases for international labels, numerous international collaborations, and more than 20 years of worldwide activity), and music editor (founding-member of cultural associations,editor and producer of art-musical releases). His track-record cuts across several disciplines such as music perception, psychoacoustics, coordination chemistry, music analysis, theory & performance and Gestalt psychology. Central of his research is the bridge between cognitive psychology (crossmodal correspondences, multisensory perception and cognition) and musicology in the field of arts. On 2023, he won the Individual CEEC-FCT (6y research contract) with CEIS20. During the last five years, he have built on his long-term activity in music -as performer, music producer and editor- and academic studies (a European PhD and post-doc) in Musicology at NOVA University Lisbon (PT) (in collaboration with Huddersfield University, UK and Université Paris 8, FR). // Since 2019, he is contracted professor at graduate and master levels at Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Coimbra, NOVA University Lisbon (PT) and School of Arts and Design, Polytechnic of Leiria, Caldas da Rainha (PT) teaching the music psychology, theory and analysis of 20th - and 21st-century music, the psychoacoustics of music and supervising artistic works of MSc students. // Over the past five years, he authored 36 peer-reviewed contributions and received more than 20 citations (excluding self-citations) as a single (or first) author in musicology and related topics such as music theory, aesthetics, and perception/cognition. These contributions include 1 book, 10 journal articles (4 in Q1), 6 book chapters, 12 papers presented at international conferences (one as invited keynote speaker), and 6 books as an editor. He has published 12 releases for international music editors, serving variously as a composer and performer, and has performed live worldwide (PT, DE, FR, IT, KR, PL). // He has coordinated several research projects (as PI and co-PI), securing funding from external sources. His recent research has focused on an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary art music perception and its listening modes: with the use of empirical surveys in different contexts (classes, seminars, open workshops), he developed an aural approach to music based on morphodynamic theory. He has been trained in classical piano, harmony and composition; and improvisation on saxophones, various keyboards, prepared guitar, electronic instruments (modular synthesizers). As a composer and performer, he explores the electronic manipulation of sound, having performed live worldwide and published music for international labels (USA, CH, IT, PT, MX). Bibliometric data: [Citations/H-index: Google Scholar: 664/14; SCOPUS: 591/12; WOS: 565/12]
Address: Portugal