Martim Galvao

Martim S. Galvão is a Brazilian-American composer, percussionist, and multimedia artist. Much of his work is concerned with interfaces and how we interact with them. He is especially interested in exploring ideas related to surveillance, consumer-facing technologies, and the web.

Galvão's work has been performed at venues such as the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), ANT Fest at Ars Nova, SPLICE Institute, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Arts, RISD, CounterPulse, and Babycastles among others.

Galvão earned his bachelor’s degree from Emory University. In 2014 he graduated from the Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. More recently, he earned an MA and a PhD from the Computer Music and Multimedia program at Brown University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Cal State San Bernardino, where he teaches courses in Music Technology.