Tiago Videira

PhD Student, Digital Media

One branch of the traditional Portuguese Fado, the Fado Castiço, is a genre that has been typified over the years. One of my goals would be to re-transcribe these original fados as ambient instrumental arrangements and then assemble them forming a database. Then, create a system that successfully generates new ambient instrumental Fado music, based on the database content. The generative/algoritmic process also aims to be interactive, that means, responsive to user constraints, concerning musical and aesthetical parameters, such as tempo, rhythm, or general mood of the Fado.