The event offers regular meetings throughout the year, with one-hour sessions (30 minutes of presentation followed by 30 minutes of debate). With a variety of themes anchored in the group’s objectives, the conferences are open to the public, who can participate via Zoom.

The topics covered include algorithmic systems and artificial intelligence; the production, circulation and consumption of music on digital platforms; audiovisual formats such as music videos, digital games and cinema; catalogue music; and online cultures and communities, among others.

The initiative promotes a space for interdisciplinary dialogue on music and sound in digital and audiovisual media, contributing to the expansion of knowledge and the exchange of ideas.

The first session, at 6.30 pm on October 30, will be led by researcher Vinícius de Aguiar and moderated by Paula Gomes-Ribeiro and André Malhado. With ‘Deepfakes in music and the musical imagination extended by AI’, Vinícius de Aguiar will focus on the use of deepfakes in music. This tool gained notoriety in 2023 after the online viralisation of songs using the voices of famous singers. Click here to join the session.

The researcher explains that ‘the relative ease of producing these deepfakes and the quality of the result have led the public, journalists and academics to reflect on the legal implications of these technologies. In this presentation, however, the phenomenon of deepfake music will be analysed as an example of musical imagination extended by AI. This analysis will be the starting point for a deeper reflection on the difference between imagining music musically with the help of technology vs. imagining music technologically’.