Hugo Vasco Reis (1981) is a composer and researcher. His artistic practice extends to acoustic music, electroacoustic music and sound installations, making collaborations with musicians, fine and visual artists, who regularly perform his works throughout Europe.
His recent compositions include an investigation to the edge of audible phenomena within a sonic space, approaching agencies of listening to and transcription, in order to capture apparently silent noises.
Hugo is a PhD candidate at the KUG (Graz). He studied composition with Isabel Mundry at the ZHdK (Zurich), as holder of Fondation Nicati-de Luze, with Mark André and Stefan Prins at the HfM (Dresden) and with António Pinho Vargas, Luís Tinoco and Sérgio Azevedo at the ESML (Lisbon). He had masterclasses with composers Toshio Hosokawa, Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku, Dieter Ammann, Franck Bedrossian, Barry Truax, Zigmunt Krauze, Åke Parmerud, Carola Bauckholt, Klaus Lang, Peter Ablinger, among others.