On Saturday, October 25th, 2025, LV participated in the round table KeKaña Talks, in the context of the KeKaña Music Festival, in Guadalajara (Spain). Organized by Patricia Biosca, scientific journalist and co-organizer of the music festival, was completed by Ana Lozano, biologist and science communicator in the podcast Interdepenciencia, and Natalia de Lucas, a mathematician and teacher who also works on science popularization mostly through the space ‘Los Viernes de la Ciencia‘ in the Spanish radio station Cadena SER.
Photo taken by David Biosca. From left to right: Patricia Biosca, Ana Lozano, Natalia de Lucas, Lucía Vaquero.
The events KeKaña Talks are a communication / popularization space where Patricia Biosca brings together experts in a topic that she pairs with the concept of ‘music’, in line with the festival that takes place in Guadalajara once a year and just a few hours after these sessions. This year, the topic was ‘science’ and ‘music’; hence, LV’s background as a neuroscientist studying how our brain changes after music experience and leading the project SMART –where we are teaching teenagers to compose music to (hopefully) compensate the negative effects of smartphone and social media overuse– was a perfect match for this year’s KeKaña Talks.
Picture by David Biosca
Questions from Patricia, acting as a moderator, as well as from the nice audience gathered at the Discotaberna de Bardales for the occasion were answered and discussed by the three members of this round table, always trying to link music with their fields of expertise: biology, math, and neuroscience.
The discussion touched ideas such as the common or different types of creativity present in music vs scientific disciplines, how music affects our bodies (and that of other species), music and emotion, potential applications of music in health and education (including some mentions to the SMART project), as well as reflections on how AI technologies may be threatening art and, hence, music nowadays, and how AI-generated music may or may not stimulate human intellect and/or emotions.
This was a super fun and interesting event and LV is absolutely grateful to have been invited to join this inpiring team of female scientists and communicators.
Thanks, Festival KeKaña and KeKaña Talks for inviting us and for allowing us to contribute to your mission of bringing all these reflections around science and music closer to the general population!
All pIctures by David Biosca
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