Miguel Azguime is founder and director of the Miso Music Portugal, artistic director of the independent record label Miso Records and the Música Viva Festival as well as founder of the Miso Studio and the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble. In 2003, together with Paula Azguime, he founded the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre, a unit with an extensive database, belonging to the international network of Music Information Centres and dedicated exclusively to dissemination of the Portuguese music patrimony.  He is actively dedicated to the promotion and diffusion of contemporary music. Since 1995 he has been developing the first Portuguese Loudspeaker Orchestra dedicated exclusively to the performance of electroacoustic music. As researcher he has been working on the development of real time computer music, giving lectures and courses in this field.