Press and awards

Most of it belongs to the company. Daccord went to the FINEP Innovation Award four times between 2007 and 2012: third place, second place, and two wins in the Northeast stage. The two paper awards, in 2007 and 2019, are from a symposium in the field.

• 2005 · Concurso Nacional Jovem Empreendedor (Cojem) (National Young Entrepreneur Competition), Softex. Daccord Music Software, in Campina Grande (Jornal do Commercio, Informática section, 06/08/2005).
• 2006 · Prêmio Santander de Inovação / Empreendedorismo (Santander Innovation / Entrepreneurship Award), Technology category. Awarded to Daccord Music Software for iChords, then a prototype, in the award's 2nd edition, with more than a thousand projects entered; ceremony on 11/29/2006, at the Palácio dos Bandeirantes (company news item).
• 2006 and 2007 · Nominations for the Epsilon Award, European Software Conference. Two nominations in 2006 (Violão Master and Dicionário de Acordes 3.0) and one in 2007, for Daccord (company news item).
• 2007 · 3rd place at the Prêmio FINEP de Inovação Tecnológica (FINEP Technological Innovation Award), Small Business category. Daccord Music Software.
• 2007 · Best Student Technical Paper Award at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM). For the paper "Analyzing Harmonic Progressions with HarmIn", by Giordano Cabral (LIP6, Paris 6) and Robert Willey, at the 11th SBCM, in São Paulo, September 1–3, 2007 (symposium page).
• 2008 · 2nd place in the FINEP Technological Innovation Award, Small Business category. Daccord Music Software. That same year the company received R$ 1.68 million from FINEP's Economic Subsidy Program (Agência Sebrae de Notícias and FAPEMA, 10/28/2009).
• 2009 · 1st place in the FINEP Technological Innovation Award, Small Business category, Northeast stage. Ceremony on 11/16/2009, at the Instituto Ricardo Brennand, in Recife; the company advanced to the national stage in December (company blog, 11/17/2009).
• 2009 · Finalist for the Dell Award for Excellence in Technology. One of the ten finalists (company blog, 07/30–31/2009).
• 2011 · 2nd place in the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, INFO Exame magazine. The nominees included Gustavo Caetano (SambaTech), Marco Gomes (boo-box), Romero Rodrigues (Buscapé), Breno Masi (FingerTips), and Diego Reeberg (Catarse) (voting page).
• 2012 · Winner of the Northeast stage of the FINEP Innovation Award, Small Business category, with the projects Turma do Som and Saiba+ Enem. Daccord Music Software, among 81 entries in the region and 13 Northeast finalists; the 15th edition received 588 entries, 56% more than in 2011. It was the company's second win in the award, after the one in 2009 (Mundo Bit, NE10, 10/18/2012; Brasileiros magazine, January 2013, pp. 112-113).
• 2019 · Best paper at the 17th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music. "TumTá and Pisada: Two Foot-controlled Digital Dance and Music Instruments Inspired by Popular Brazilian Traditions", by João Tragtenberg, Geber Ramalho, Giordano Cabral, and Filipe Calegario, all from MusTIC. The symposium took place on 09/25–27/2019, in São João del-Rei (CIn-UFPE portal, 10/03/2019).

"Hello World", directed by SKYGGE (Benoît Carré) and released in 2018, is one of the first albums created by artificial intelligence in the world. It was composed with the Flow Machines system, developed at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris under the direction of François Pachet, co-advisor of Giordano Cabral's doctorate; his name appears on the album's credits page. Brazyle (2017), a database of Brazilian songs created at D'Accord and coordinated by him, is the Brazilian part of the Flow Machines project, from Sony CSL, on artificial intelligence for music creation (AESO-Barros Melo, 10/19/2017). In a text from 06/15/2023, CESAR reports that in 2016 he followed, with Pachet and Briot, the preparation of "Daddy's Car", the first pop song co-written by AI, and that he later joined the project that led to the album (O design impulsionado pela IA generativa).

From 2024 onward, the coverage centers on the World Cup pool, the TEDx talk on education, and ActuIA's dossier on artificial intelligence in Brazil.

• July 22, 2026 — Estudantes do CIn-UFPE inovam ao reunir 124 inteligências artificiais em experimento sobre a Copa do Mundo · CIn-UFPE Portal · Bolão das IAs results: 5,797 predictions over 38 days, with a human participant ahead of 121 of the 124 AIs.
• June 15, 2026 — Bolão criado pela UFPE reúne inteligências artificiais para palpitar sobre a Copa do Mundo de 2026 · Folha de Pernambuco (Paula Bacelar) · Interview about the experiment: "AIs tend to be very conservative — they follow the statistics and avoid risks".
• 06/14/2026 — Estudantes e professor do Centro de Informática da UFPE criam bolão que reúne palpites de 122 inteligências artificiais para a Copa do Mundo · g1 Pernambuco · Video and text report on Arena das IAs: "this initiative is so that we can deal with AI in a lighter way".
• June 11, 2026 — Grupo do CIn cria bolão que reúne palpites de 122 inteligências artificiais para a Copa do Mundo de 2026 · CIn-UFPE Portal · Launch of the free, noncommercial platform, covering all 104 World Cup matches.
• August 12, 2025 — CIn-UFPE e Propesqi realizam Seminário "IA na Pesquisa e Inovação" · CIn-UFPE Portal · Public seminar with four panels on AI in research, education and ethics; MusTIC is among the groups mentioned (news article dated July 31, 2025).
• July 22, 2025 — IA e o futuro da educação: chitãozinho e xororó estavam certos · TEDxBoa Viagem ED, on the official TEDx Talks channel · A talk on how artificial intelligence changes education.
• April 4, 2025 — Estudantes de disciplina da UFPE apresentam projetos e soluções revolucionários no Demoday Projetão 2024.2 · CIn-UFPE Portal · Lists the faculty members responsible for the course that semester, including Giordano Cabral from CIn.
• February 14, 2025 — CESAR launches magazine covering trends and challenges in AI and cybersecurity · CESAR · Launch of "Horizontes Seguros", in Portuguese and English; the article features a conversation between him, then Chair of the Board, and CEO Eduardo Peixoto about talent, education and risk management: "future cybersecurity professionals need to think like AI."
• 01/17/2025 — Beauty Gets Brainy: How Brazilian Innovation is Disrupting the Global Cosmetics Industry · Grit Daily (USA) · On CESAR's smart lipstick prototype, with a statement from him as Chairman of the Board for CESAR Innovation Hub.
• July 16, 2024 — L'IA au Brésil : stratégies, défis et opportunités dans un marché émergent · ActuIA no. 16, pp. 61–65 (France) · Dossier on artificial intelligence in Brazil, coordinated with Jean-Pierre Briot (CNRS/LIP6).
• July 2024 — Innovations et défis de l'intelligence artificielle au Brésil : un entretien exclusif avec Fabio Cozman et Giordano Cabral · ActuIA no. 16, appendix · Interview with him and Fabio Cozman (USP/C4AI), conducted by Jean-Pierre Briot and Thomas Calvi.
• 06/27/2024 — Professor do CIn-UFPE desenvolve repositório de IA Generativa no GitHub · Portal do CIn-UFPE · About the "Awesome Generative AI" repository by Filipe Calegario, tied to the Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity) course, offered since 2020.
• June 7, 2024 — Dissertação de mestrado escrita por estudante do CIn-UFPE origina livro sobre gamificação em sala de aula · CIn-UFPE Portal · The author is introduced as a researcher at Voxar Labs and MusTIC.
• May 10, 2024 — CAIS podcast episodes discuss developments and challenges in technology · Jornal Digital (Recife) · Retrospective on the Porto Digital podcast: its debut episode, on artificial intelligence, in which he was one of four interviewees, ranks among the three most listened to out of more than fifty episodes.
• April 15, 2024 — Criatividade Computacional é o tema da comemoração do CIn-UFPE pelo Dia Mundial da Criatividade e Inovação · CIn-UFPE Portal · MusTIC is introduced as the Center's art, technology and creativity group.
• April 13, 2024 — L'Intelligence Artificielle au Brésil · HAL / Archives Ouvertes · Open repository version of the analysis of the state of AI in Brazil, with Briot and Cozman.

Five years between CESAR, MusTIC and the Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity) course, with two articles signed by him: one in Grit Daily, the other on the CESAR website.

• 12/15/2023 — Will AI's Next Wave of Super Intelligence Replace Human Ingenuity? It's Complicated · Grit Daily (USA) · Article signed by him, updated on 05/10/2024. It argues that an artificial general intelligence that surpasses humans in almost everything is unlikely, and that it is more worthwhile to use the machine for what humans cannot do (non-human observations, dimensions beyond perception) than to outdo them at what they already do. It surveys the cultural distrust of AI, from HAL 9000 to the Hollywood strikes, and the divergence among timeline estimates. Author page on the outlet: https://gritdaily.com/author/giordano-cabral/.
• 09/14/2023 and 04/12/2023 — Disciplina pioneira de Criatividade Computacional do CIn apresenta projetos inovadores em IA Gerativa · Portal do CIn-UFPE · Two news items, one per semester, about the course's project showcase.
• 06/06/2023 — From "Hello World" to an Array of A.I.-powered Design · CESAR · Text in English with statements by him about the work with François Pachet and Jean-Pierre Briot, the preparation of "Daddy's Car" in 2016, and the album "Hello World".
• 02/01/2023 — Professores do CIn-UFPE participam de programa na Rádio Jornal para discutir inteligência artificial gerativa · Rádio Jornal 90.3 FM, Debate da Super Manhã · A one-hour program on the effects of generative AI (news item dated 01/31/2023).
• January 9, 2023 — Aplicativo iChords, desenvolvido com colaboração de membros do CIn-UFPE, une violão e redes sociais · CIn-UFPE Portal · Launch at the Porto Digital cinema, with him, Calegario, Eduardo Santos and Valter Jorge involved in the project.
• November 18, 2022 — Disciplina de Criatividade Computacional é ofertada para alunos da graduação de toda UFPE · CIn-UFPE Portal · The 60-hour elective IF866 begins accepting students from outside the Center.
• October 19, 2022 — Nova gestão assume a diretoria da associação de ex-alunos do CIn-UFPE · CIn-UFPE Portal · He took office as President of Alumni CIn at the assembly on October 14, 2022, for the 2022–2025 term.
• September 21, 2022 — CIn-UFPE realiza Workshop "Geração de Imagem com Inteligência Artificial" · CIn-UFPE Portal · Prompt-writing workshop led by a MusTIC researcher.
• September 15, 2022 — REC'n'Play chega à quarta edição ainda maior · Porto Digital · Curator of the festival's technology track, alongside Monica Bouqvar and Henrique Foresti.
• August 4, 2022 — MusTIC e Voxar Labs participam da Ópera Auto da Compadecida no Festival de Ópera do Recife · CIn-UFPE Portal · The two CIn groups created the production's special effects for the third Pernambuco Opera Festival.
• 05/10/2022 — Conexão Porto Digital: o impacto do streaming e novas tecnologias para a música · Porto Digital · Episode on streaming and music technology, with his participation, then chair of the Board of Directors of CESAR.
• February 23, 2022 — Voxar Up busca aproximar ações realizadas na Academia com práticas do mercado · CIn-UFPE Portal · Guest at the first edition of the Voxar Labs monthly series, on February 25, 2022.
• 12/01/2021 and 12/09/2021 — CIn-UFPE oferece disciplina de Computação Musical para alunos da graduação · Portal do CIn-UFPE · Two news items about the offering of Computação Musical 2 (Music Computing 2); the CIn is named as one of the few institutions in the country with a standalone course on the subject.
• October 21, 2021 — CIn-UFPE realiza 18º Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Musical em parceria com o CESAR · CIn-UFPE Portal · The field's national symposium was held in Recife, organized by MusTIC.
• September 1, September 29 and October 13, 2021 — Podcast do CIn-UFPE sobre o mercado de trabalho de tecnologia · CIn-UFPE Portal · A three-episode series on the IT job market, corporate culture and education, featuring him in all three.
• June 16, 2021 — Equipes do CIn-UFPE conquistam 1º e 2º lugar no desafio Chord Detection Challenge · CIn-UFPE Portal · A chord detection challenge involving 17 teams from four federal universities, held in collaboration with the Moises.ai platform (announced on June 9, 2021).
• 05/14/2021 — CESAR marca os 25 anos de trajetória com lições e reflexões · CESAR School · Coverage of the institute's digital 25th-anniversary event, with about 900 participants, and his remarks on values, as chair of the Board of Directors.
• April 27, 2021 — CAIS #01 — Inteligência Artificial: presente e futuro da tecnologia · CAIS Podcast, Porto Digital · The podcast's inaugural episode, featuring him (CESAR/UFPE), Patrícia Tedesco (CIn-UFPE), Rodrigo Cunha (Neurotech) and Geber Ramalho.
• December 12, 2020 — Sexta live do MusTIC promove debate sobre as três décadas NICE em Pernambuco · CIn-UFPE Portal · One of the group's six public livestreams in 2020.
• November 11, 2020 — VOXAR Labs organiza principal conferência internacional na área de Realidade Mista · CIn-UFPE Portal · Documents MusTIC's role as a co-organizer of SBGames.
• July 30, 2020 and July 7, 2020 — MusTIC promove lives sobre o futuro dos espetáculos e as transformações digitais na dança · CIn-UFPE Portal · The first and second editions of the group's discussion series.
• July 8, 2020 — O imprevisível cenário pós-covid · CESAR · Article signed in his capacity as Vice Chair of the Board, discussing innovation as behavioral change and the pandemic as the removal of a barrier to behaviors that already existed.
• May 6, 2020 — Primeira Semana de Sistemas de Informação da UFRPE · CIn-UFPE Portal · Participation in the "Conversation with Entrepreneurs" at SEMSIS, held May 26–29, 2020.
• December 10, 2019 and October 24, 2019 — Workshop MusTIC de Tecnologias Criativas · CIn-UFPE portal · Workshop on December 13, 2019, and the "Creating musical interfaces with Arduino" workshop at CIn's Maker Space.
• November 27, 2019 — CIn-UFPE recebe oficinas sobre computação musical e aprendizado de máquina na interatividade · CIn-UFPE portal · Residency with MusTIC by a doctoral student from Université Bretagne Sud, from November 25 to December 20, 2019.
• October 3, 2019 — MusTIC recebe título de melhor artigo do 17º Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Musical · CIn-UFPE portal · Award for the paper on the TumTá and Pisada instruments, developed with artist Helder Vasconcelos.
• September 12, 2019 — CIn-UFPE marca presença no REC'n'Play 2019 · CIn-UFPE portal · "Creative Machines" talk on October 2, 2019, at the Roberto Monteiro Auditorium at Softex.
• May 23, 2019 — Encontro de Criadores de Música e Tecnologia reúne artistas de Pernambuco no Portomídia · CESAR · Opening panel of the meeting, serving at the time as vice chair of the CESAR board.
• May 7, 2019 — Daccord desenvolve software para a indústria musical · Música & Mercado · Profile of the company he founded: 116 countries, two FINEP awards, and MusiGames games.
• April 12, 2019 — Embaixador lança livro de ficção científica na CESAR School · CESAR School · Launch of "Hybris: inteligência artificial e a revanche do inconsciente", by Ambassador Alessandro Candeas, on April 16, 2019, opening with a roundtable on artificial intelligence featuring the author, Giordano Cabral and Eduardo Peixoto, moderated by Geber Ramalho.

The early years at CIn, after taking up his faculty appointment as professor adjunto in 2014.2: a game jam, course showcases, teacher training at Prof-Lab and the talk on Flow Machines in Olinda.

• July 17, 2018 — Centro de Informática realiza a primeira UFPE Game Jam · CIn-UFPE portal · A 48-hour marathon with 50 participants in August 2018; he and Geber Ramalho attended the presentations.
• July 11, 2018 — Projetos de alunos do CIn trazem inovações na área de jogos e aplicações multimídia · CIn-UFPE portal · Final showcase for the Introdução à Multimídia and Computação Musical courses.
• 10/19/2017 — Inteligência artificial na música · AESO-Barros Melo · Announcement of the 10/26/2017 talk on Flow Machines (Sony CSL Paris) and Brazyle, the Brazilian part of the project.
• July 7, 2017 — Estudantes do CIn-UFPE apresentam resultados da disciplina de Projetão no Demo Day · CIn-UFPE portal · "Demo Day is the time to present results to people who may believe in your idea."
• June 1, 2017 and April 20, 2017 — Docentes e aluna do CIn-UFPE são formadores na nova temporada do Prof-Lab · CIn-UFPE portal · Instructor in the teacher training program, with classes on creative computing and game design thinking.
• May 12, 2017 — M Coletivo apresenta espetáculo em parceria com o MusTIC · CIn-UFPE Portal · "3 catástrofes sobre o prazer", on May 20 and 21, 2017, at Teatro Hermilo Borba Filho.
• March 9, 2017 — Disciplina de Economia Criativa, cadeira nos moldes do Projetão, é disponibilizada para diversos cursos da UFPE · CIn-UFPE Portal · Extension of the Projetão model to degree programs at the Center for Arts and Communication.
• December 14, 2016 — Dia CIn 2016 finaliza as celebrações de fim de ano do Centro · CIn-UFPE Portal · Demonstration of digitally fabricated instruments and a performance by the Center's faculty band.
• November 24, 2016 — Professor do CIn-UFPE apresenta instrumentos musicais de fabricação digital no L.O.U.Co · CIn-UFPE Portal · Presentation at Porto Digital's open lab, bringing together MusTIC, Batebit and Daccord.
• March 23, 2016 — Professores do CIn-UFPE participam de evento sobre desenvolvimento tecnológico e empreendedorismo · CIn-UFPE Portal · Guest at Radar Empreendedor.
• May 8, 2015 — CIn/UFPE ganha 7 novos professores · CIn-UFPE Portal · Record of his appointment as an adjunct professor during the 2014.2 semester.
• January 16, 2015 — Alunos do CIn/UFPE dão cursos voltados à área musical durante o Recife Summer School · CIn-UFPE Portal · MusTIC courses in Porto Digital's summer program.

The company phase. What the press covered was software exports, mobile games and music in schools, from a profile in Diário de Pernambuco in 2006 to the Exame report in 2013.

• April 4, 2013 — Os nerds da educação online estão contratando · Exame · About the educational technology market; Daccord is featured with Turma do Som in schools across six states and serving 5,000 students, and he is quoted as a founding partner: "we are receiving requests to develop new applications for basic education".
• March 15, 2013 — Grupo de pesquisa do CIn, MusTIC, pretende inovar em tecnologia musical · CIn-UFPE Portal · First news report about the group, established in 2011 through a partnership between Geber Ramalho and him, then described as an alumnus and founder of D'Accord.
• February 20, 2013 — Grupo de Pesquisa do CIn promove oficina sobre o Software Isadora · CIn-UFPE Portal · MusTIC workshop on real-time audio and video manipulation.
• 12/04/2012 — Softwares potencializam ensino de música nas escolas · Instituto Claro (Aline Aurilli) · About Turma do Som, the incubation at RecifeBEAT (CIn/UFPE) and the headquarters at Porto Digital, with an interview with him and music teacher Rostan Junior, of Instituto Peró. His statement: "algumas escolas têm apenas uma aula de música por mês e a tecnologia faz com que os alunos aproveitem este momento para imergirem mais no assunto"; and, in the same text, "aprender exige dedicação e é preciso praticar muito". The article records the offer of teacher training, remote or in person.
• 10/18/2012 — Pernambucana Daccord vence Prêmio Finep de Inovação · Blog Mundo Bit, NE10 portal (Sistema Jornal do Commercio) · Reports that the company won in the Small Business category with the projects Turma do Som and Saiba+ Enem, its second win in the award, and carries his statement: "we believe we can make the world better. We innovate in something so traditional, so important: education".
• April 9, 2011 — Drums Challenge coming soon on PlayStation Minis · AFJV (France) · Port of the MusiGames game to PSP and PS3, with Sanuk Games.
• January 13, 2011 — Playful Musical Puzzle Apps From MusiGames · The Creators Project / Vice · Profile of the games iMusic Puzzle, Drums Challenge, MixBox Baile Funk and Throat Detonator.
• 05/26/2010 — "MusiGames lidera downloads do iPad" · Jornal do Commercio · The drum game in first place in the iPad ranking; MusiGames had 28 people.
• April 12, 2010 — Desenvolvedora brasileira MusiGames Studio lança jogo de bateria para iPad · MacMagazine · Launch of Drums Challenge HD.
• 02/26/2010 — "Eles fazem diferente" · Época Negócios · Report on the company.
• February 2010 — Inovação em Pauta magazine, no. 8 · FINEP · Article on the winners of the 2009 FINEP Award.
• February 10, 2010 — "D'Accord recebe aporte de mais de R$ 1 milhão" · Jornal do Commercio · Investment from Fundo Criatec (BNDES).
• October 28, 2009 — "Empresa exporta software musical para 85 países" · Agência Sebrae de Notícias · Company profile: origins in the CIn incubator in 2000, software developed from a master's thesis, R$ 1.68 million from FINEP in 2008, and team growth from 10 to 23 people.
• October 28, 2009 — Empresa pernambucana faz sucesso com jogos para iPhone · FAPEMA · The same report, focusing on MusiGames games.
• October 22, 2009 — CIn-UFPE realiza palestra-show sobre "Novas tecnologias para a música" · CIn-UFPE Portal · Talk "iPhone, iPod, iWhatElse? Music computing goes portable", on October 28, 2009, at Núcleo de Gestão do Porto Digital, alongside Geber Ramalho, Jarbas Jácome and François Pachet.
• 08/19/2009 — Edge magazine · Mention of MusiGames in the British games magazine.
• January 19, 2009 — "Bateria virtual do Recife para o mundo" · Pequenas Empresas & Grandes Negócios · Report on Drums Challenge.
• October 1, 2008 — Jornal do Commercio · On the nomination of a company partner for the British Council's International Young Creative Entrepreneur award.
• January 4, 2006 — "Vendedor 24 horas" · Diário de Pernambuco · The company recorded 30,000 downloads per month, six years after its founding.
• June 8, 2005 — "CIn e D'Accord saem vitoriosos do Cojem" · Jornal do Commercio, technology section · Win at the Concurso Nacional Jovem Empreendedor, in Campina Grande.
• up to 2006 — O Globo ("Em sintonia com o mercado de música"), O Estado de S. Paulo ("Professor de música virtual") and Folha de S.Paulo ("Softs de música levam estúdio para casa") · Articles on the company's music software.

Between 2009 and 2014 most are at music education meetings and business fairs; from 2017 onward, on artificial intelligence.