Rui Sampaio Dias is acomposer, media artist and researcher from Braga, Portugal. He holds a PhD in Digital Media and a master's degree in Multimedia from the University of Porto, and a degree in Composition from the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Polytechnic Insitute of [...] serves as an adjunct Professor at the School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic University of Castelo Branco - Portugal, where he leads the program in Electronic Music and Musical Production and the master's degree in Production for Digital Media. Integrated researcher at TECHN&ART - Technology, restauration and Arts Enhancement Center. His topics include: computer music, technologies for music creation and sound design and the creation of interactive multimedia artworks. He presented his work in several countries, and at several conferences including ICMC, SMC, CMMR, SigGraph Asia, ARTECH, and ARTEFACTO.

Luzia Aurora Rocha studied Musicology in Lisbon (Portugal) and Innsbruck (Austria), and gained a PhD in Musicology from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in 2012. She is currently a researcher at the CESEM, NOVA FCSH; she also coordinates the Work Group on Musical Iconography from ARLAC/IMS and the Musical Iconography Thematic Line from CESEM. Her work spans the fields of Musicology, Musical Iconography, Organology, Semiotics and Cultural Studies with a focus on issues of production, reception, cataloguing of sources and cultural transfer. She has taught at several higher education and university institutions. Luzia Aurora Rocha received a Merit Prize from NOVA University (1999) and benefited from a PhD grant (FCT, 2006) and two post-doctoral research grants (The Orient Foundation, 2015; CESEM, 2017) before she applied successfully for a contract as a researcher (2019-to date). She is the author and editor of several books. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed and web-of-science indexed journals. She presented her work, by invitation and as a keynote speaker, in international conferences held in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, USA, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Russia, China and Japan. She is also an external consultant for the European Union in the fields of Culture and Heritage.

António de Sousa Dias is a composer, multimedia artist, performer and researcher. He holds a doctorate in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts, a degree in Composition and has been active in composing, research and teaching. His work covers a variety of genres, including instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed genres, as well as music for cinema and audiovisuals, includin

What does the Restoration of the 1789 Antunes Harpsichord reveal to us.- Alto está Alto mora Looking for the sound of the past for the history of bells in Braga Portugal.- Performing practices and performance spaces at the Royal Sites during the reign of philip V.- The 1785 Antunes harpsichord and its painted imagery an interpretation.- Chinoiseries and chinesices Images of music in sino portuguese paintings from the 18th century.- An Image out of Step the Death Mask of Priest José Maurício Nunes Garcia in the National Historical Museum Collection Rio de Janeiro.- Betw Among Insects and Guitars the Presence of Vanitas Elements in the Work of Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.- What Does Sound Look Like Musical Iconography in the Quilts of Castelo Branco.- Weaving Music Music within Portalegres Tapestries.- Music and Opera in Chinese Propaganda Posters The Kwok On Collection in Portugal.- 3 2 city art and music or three considerations on two murals by Mário Belém.- Preservation as an intertextual practice Addressing the documentation of scenic visual elements in music theatre performances.- Metamorphosis from the Acoustic into the Optical The Picture Form of the Musical Artwork as one of its Thirteen Forms of Existence.- Score with a view Sounding Images Imagining Sound.- Aural architecture the sonorous the acoustic and the auditory.- The Truth of Sound Exploring the impacts of Immersive Location Sound Recording in Realist Filmmaking.- The Problem with Sonification.- Resonant Aesthetics Attention and Synaesthesia in Digital Media Art.- Syntithenai poi sis perceptual unified objects.- Phonospermia Aesthesic Listening and Sonic Cosmologies.- Sound-to-visual mapping strategies in audiovisual performance and installations.