bio

Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Gustavo Bonin is a composer and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary music and discursive semiotics. His artistic work explores the potential interactions between musical language and other artistic languages, particularly literature and poetry. His works have been premiered in Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden, and he was a member of the Capim Novo Collective, a group of Brazilian composers, performers, and artists dedicated to research, creation, and practice in contemporary music and art. He holds a Master’s degree in Musicology (2018) and a PhD in Sonology and Creative Processes (2023) from the University of São Paulo. He served as a substitute professor of Musical Perception at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro between 2018 and 2019. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Linguistics and Semiotics at the University of São Paulo, with a research stay at Université Paris 8, where he is developing a project dedicated to recovering the work of the French musicologist, pianist, and philosopher Gisèle Brelet, as well as investigating its possible connections with tensive semiotics, developed by the French semiotician Claude Zilberberg.