Gonçalo Cruz
Researcher | Designer | Musician | Educator | Maker
Musician
Music composer and guest musician on live and recorded performances
Maker
Maker of bagpipes & Woodwinds
Researcher
Doctoral Researcher in Music
The Redesign of Bagpipes
My workshops & Seminars
Over the last years, Gonçalo has worked with several educational institutions carrying out pedagogical, cultural & motivational seminars and workshops.
If you’re looking for a guest speaker or would like to hear more about his seminars, please send an email.
Project & Design
Tools that help you think.
Be it the remodeling of your own apartment, producing your new record album, drafting your scientific paper or designing your live performance.
In Design process, it’s all about getting something accomplished.
Well-being
Learn to be. . .
From Music to the Visual Arts, from Meditation to Martial arts, its all about transcending technique.
Thinking > Knowing > Being
Musician
by design…
I’ve been connected to the arts since as far back as I can remember. I’ve never imagined myself doing anything other than creating “stuff”. How Music composition became an intrinsic part of “it all”, is something that took me a while to make sense of… However, since childhood having travel from Drawing to Painting, to Architecture, and ending up Making the very same musical instruments I play and compose with, has been an amazing ride. The more time passes the more everything seems to fall into place…
Latest News
Gonçalo writes for several media outlets, including the youtube channel GaitaMakerTV, or the Finndit.org initiative.
He also publishes articles and papers, that you can read here.
More printers! More woodwind prototypes
I am extremely happy to give you the news! Our workshop counts now with a second Prusa 3D Printer machine. This time it is a filament machine, that allows us to print prototype pieces with more mechanical...
Krishna Nagaraja Doctoral Defence ends with Bagpipe & Jouhikko Music
My good friend and doctoral colleague Krishna Nagaraja, has just finished an incredible research! The defence of his doctoral project - Polska Travels: Composing (at) the Crossroads - has happened today. In the folk music department, there is a tradition to...
Swedish Museum of Performing Arts
Besides assisting me in the survey of Swedish Sãckpipas, Zexuan had quite a few interesting french bagpipes waiting for him in this collection. These items could help him shed light on his own doctoral research on the border pipes of England and Scotland. The...
Address
Helsinki – Finland
Call
+358 45 251 87 27
Info@GoncaloCruz.com