ASSOCIAÇÃO SONS DA LUSOPHONIA (ASL) was founded in 1996 as a platform to create projects and programs in the area of music and the expressive behaviors associated with it.
Promoting social inclusion, accessibility in music and the common cultural preservation between Portuguese-speaking peoples and other diasporas that live in the Lisbon area, ASL has been promoting a intercultural and multidisciplinary work for three decades, always present in its activities.
Celebrating thirty years in 2026, ASL has been working in multidisciplinary forms: from the creation of the Orquestra Sons da Lusofonia — composed of artists from the PALOP — at the end of the 90s, to the creation and coordination of pedagogical programs (like the OPA and jazzopa creative laboratories) and sociocultural programs (like D'Improviso and Modo Portátil) in partnership with several institutions; including research projects in ethnomusicology; coaching on cultural policies in the city of Lisbon and the Alentejo region; audiovisual content (Lisboa Mistura TV); and the production of cultural events and festivals (Festa do Jazz / Lisboa Mistura), always from an integrated perspective with the different local communities.
Since its foundation, ASL has contributed to cooperation between geo-culturally diverse countries, promoting not only Jazz music abroad — ASL is a member of the Europe Jazz Network — but also the development of an artistic identity based on traditions oriented towards the future, using Sound and music composition to recompose and reconnect the world, through social and artistic intervention projects, alert to changes and structured based on social creativity.
Over 30 years, ASL has carried out work of undeniable importance for both Portuguese culture and human diversity, being an association recognized not only by cultural agents and the various audiences, but also by national and international institutional entities.
