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10 September 2024

The Music AI Rights Debate: Beyond the Track and the Training Data

Date & Time:听Fri, Oct 18, 11:30 AM 鈥� 12:30 PM (Sydney)
Venue:听ICC Sydney, Room C2.3

闯辞颈苍听Oliver Bown听for a pivotal discussion on how AI is reshaping music and intellectual property. This discussion outlines a crucial debate on musical culture that requires insights from various angles 鈥� legal, creative, social, and technical.

Alongside Bown, experts Kate Haddock, Angela Stengel and Kazjon Grace will address the technical, legal, and cultural aspects of this debate. Discover whether automated attribution could solve or complicate IP issues in music.

Don鈥檛 miss this important conversation on the AI music rights! for more information:听

5 September 2024

On 5 September 2024,听Rebecca Fiebrink听has given a keynote on 鈥淗ow machine learning can support human creators in music and beyond鈥� at DAFx24 (Digital Audio Effects Conference 2024). Learn more about the conference programme here:听

21 August 2024

Oliver Bown designed a one day course that provides participants with a comprehensive overview of the changes taking place in the creative industries as a result of AI. Whether your business is pro- or anti-AI, developing, using or competing with AI tools, it is essential to understand the technology, core social issues, and associated trends.听

Sign up for announcements here:听

21 August 2024

APRA AMCOS REPORT

Oliver Bown was one of 8 experts in AI and music consulted in a major survey by Goldmedia and commissioned by the Australian collection agencies APRA/AMCOS. The report follows up on an earlier report commissioned by GEMMA and SACEM. It details the immediately felt impacts of AI on musicians, as well as their expectations and concerns moving forward. It stresses the ongoing issue of copyright laws and other protections not being fit to protect artists from AI companies using their work for profit. Bown鈥檚 contribution also extends to consideration of how music consumption habits will evolve over time, highlighting the dangers of potential 鈥渉it song science鈥� type predictive technologies.

The report was published on Friday 17th August.

20 August 2024

Oliver Bown听curated a quiz asking people to tell the difference between human and AI created music that will be experienced by attendees at FODI (Festival of Dangerous Ideas) August 24-25.

Here is more information about the festival:听

7 August 2024

In Scifest 2024, UNSW Sydney,听Oliver Bown听will be giving a talk with guest pianist Adrian Lim-Klumpes, 鈥淐reative Clash: Human v Machine鈥�. 听.听

August 16th at the RoundHouse, UNSW Kensington campus.

1 August 2024

Transforming Project, Co-Investigated by听Rebecca Fiebrink, will organize a two-day conference 鈥淭he听Museum x Machine x Me鈥�听at Tate Modern on 2-3 October 2024. This will take place as part of a public celebration that spans a week and marks the conclusion of a significant research project called 鈥淭ransforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation, and Heritage鈥�.

The conference will be followed by a Tate Britain Late event.

Transforming Collections project is a major AHRC-funded project, is a part of 鈥溾�澨�

Tickets are now available via Tate鈥檚 website:听

20 June听2024

Aaron Einbond will present an invited talk on Monday 24th June at the event 鈥淐ritical & Creative Digital Dynamics: A Symposium on AI & Digital Innovations for Inter-art Chamber Music Practices鈥澨齩rganised in collaboration with the Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies (ILCS) at the University of London. The talk 鈥淢aterial Engagement with Machine Learning in Prestidigitation for percussion and 3-D electronics鈥� will examine Aaron鈥檚 autoethnographic study of composing with AI from the MusAI project WP3c 鈥淧ermeable Interdisciplinarity: Algorithmic Composition, Subverted鈥�. For more information, see the link below:

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11 June 2024

On June 20, Rebecca Fiebrink will give a talk at Machine Teaching Commons Symposium organized by Critical Media Lab, Basel. For more information see the link:

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4 June 2024

Rebecca Fiebrink is set to join the Sonar+D Panel "AI: Generating Panic?" in Barcelona next week on June 13. In this forum, experts will discuss the upcoming realities on AI in arts and culture. For more information about the panel, visit

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23 May 2024

Tomorrow at the University of Music Trossingen (Germany), from research team Artemi Gioti will give an ML workshop and a guest lecture on 鈥淨uestions of the Aesthetic in Compositional Applications of ML鈥�

21 May 2024

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PI Georgina Born and Advisory Board member Tobias Blanke are now putting together the members of the Editorial Collective and Editorial Board for the new open access journal Cambridge Forum on Artificial Intelligence: Culture and Society, published by Cambridge University Press. The journal will publish the first 4 issues in 2025, and a further 4 issues in 2026. An open call will go out in summer 2024 for proposals for themed issues and Guest Editors to curate them.

21 May 2024

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Oliver Bown's paper has been accepted for Sound and Music Computing 2024 in Porto. Details will be coming later. For more information:听

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17 May 2024

Submissions for the 2024 Workshop on the Study of Commercial Creative AI (ComCAI) close today. Co-chaired by Oliver Bown, Rebecca Fiebrink, Georgina Born, and Bob Sturm, the workshop aims to engage the computational creativity community in interdisciplinary discussions. For more information, please visit:

15 May 2024

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City, University of London announces that PI Professor Georgina Born will give the Worshipful Company of Musicians Annual Lecture on May 15 from 6.30 pm to 7.45 pm BST. Born will present her lecture entitled "Music Transformed: How Digitisation and Artificial Intelligence are Changing Music鈥�" at the Bayes Business School.

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During her 45-minute presentation, Georgina Born will discuss her findings as an anthropologist, employing recent research by the MusAI research team, regarding the integration of music into digital media and its growing involvement in advances in artificial intelligence. Her presentation focuses on significant transformations in the nature of music and musical experience, and how they are linked to the commercial and technological strategies driving AI鈥檚 development around music.

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The lecture is open to alumni and the public, and registration is available online from this link:

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8 May 2024

Oliver Bown听will be talking at LOGIN conference, Vilnius, Lithuania which will be held on May 30-31. Find more details about the conference and ticket details from:听

8 May 2024

Oliver Bown听has put out a new Conversation piece 鈥�AI can now generate entire songs on demand. What does this mean for music as we know听it?鈥�. The article analyzes effects of new AI platforms such as Udio and Suno on music cultures and how it analyzes how music cultures.听

1 May 2024

Oliver Bown鈥榮 journal article 鈥淏lind search and flexible product visions: the sociotechnical shaping of generative music engines鈥� is published by AI & Society Journal. This article is now open access:听

1 May 2024

PI Georgina Born听will deliver a keynote at the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group conference, held at Kings College London on July 11-12^th.

Find more information about the conference and the tickets at this link:听

Posted 30听April 2024

The Editorial Collective and Editorial Board for the new CUP journal,听Cambridge Forum on Artificial Intelligence: Culture and Society听(AICuSoc), for which PI Georgina Born and Advisory Board member Tobias Blanke are Co-Editors-in-Chief, are now in process of being formed. The first four issues of the journal will be published in 2025.

Posted 30听April 2024

MusAI鈥檚 research project 鈥�WP4b:听鈥業nterdisciplinary Interventions in the Design of Music Recommender Systems鈥�, led by听Fernando Diaz听and听PI Georgina Born, has now reached a second stage of its work and is entering into research collaborations with two public media organisations: the BBC and Radio Canada in Quebec. The 鈥榗ommonality鈥� metric conceptualised and designed in the project鈥檚 first stage will be tested out. WP4b recently published its first stage findings here:
Andreas Ferraro, Gustavo Ferreira, Fernando Diaz and Georgina Born. 2024. 鈥楳easuring Commonality in Recommendation of Cultural Content to Strengthen Cultural Citizenship鈥�,听ACM Transactions of Recommender Systems,听33 (February).听

Posted 24 April 2024

On April 19,听Artemi Gioti听gave a talk at Klangmanifeste in Vienna, about 鈥�AI und pataphysics 鈥� Art & Philosophy Speed dating & Lecture performances鈥� and answered the questions of arts and science enthusiasts. This session allows experts in the sciences and arts fields to come together and see the parallels between different disciplines.听

Posted 23 April 2024

On April 16, Artemi-Maria Gioti has performed Bias II by Magda Mayas at the AI Congress of the State of Saxony, Chemnitz. Follow the link for more information about the congress听

Posted 22 April 2024

The latest issue of the听Computer Music Journal听features research from the MusAI team on the cover, in the Sound Anthology, and in two articles. The cover image shows听Prestidigitation听for percussion and 3D electronics by听Aaron Einbond, while it is being workshopped during an artistic research residency at IRCAM supported by MusAI research programme. The work is also featured in the issue鈥檚 Sound and Video Anthology along with听Bias II听for piano and interactive music system by Artemi-Maria Gioti, also created as part of her research for the MusAI project. Inside the issue, both works are the subjects of two major articles by the MusAI team: 鈥淐omposing the Assemblage: Probing Aesthetic and Technical Dimensions of Artistic Creation with Machine Learning鈥� by Gioti, Einbond, and MusAI PI Georgina Born, and 鈥淓mbodying Spatial Sound Synthesis with AI in Two Compositions for Instruments and 3-D Electronics鈥� by Einbond et al.

You can find the links to each articles below:

1- Issue page:听

2- Artemi-Maria Gioti,听Aaron Einbond,听Georgina Born; Composing the Assemblage: Probing Aesthetic and Technical Dimensions of Artistic Creation with Machine Learning.听Computer Music Journal听2022; 46 (4): 62鈥�80. doi:听

3- Aaron Einbond,听Thibaut Carpentier,听Diemo Schwarz,听Jean Bresson; Embodying Spatial Sound Synthesis with AI in Two Compositions for Instruments and 3-D Electronics.听Computer Music Journal听2022; 46 (4): 43鈥�61. doi:听

4- Ken D茅guernel,听Bob L. T. Sturm,听Artemi-Maria Gioti,听Georgina Born; Sound and Video Anthology: Program Notes.听Computer Music Journal听2022; 46 (4): 112鈥�116. doi:听

5- Ken D茅guernel,听Bob L. T. Sturm,听Artemi-Maria Gioti,听Georgina Born,听Oded Ben-Tal,听Jo毛lle L茅andre,听Aaron Einbond,听Artemi-Maria Gioti,听Iv谩n Paz,听Nao Tokui; Sound Anthology: Content.听Computer Music Journal听2022; 46 (4): 1. doi:听

6- Artemi-Maria Gioti,听Aaron Einbond,听Georgina Born; Composing the Assemblage: Probing Aesthetic and Technical Dimensions of Artistic Creation with Machine Learning.听Computer Music Journal听2022; 46 (4): 62鈥�80. doi:听

Posted 22 April 2024

On April 4,听Artemi Gioti听performed Bias II by Magda Mayas at the annual Conference of the Institute of New Music and Music Education Darmstadt. The performance was followed up with a listening lab on Bias II in collaboration with Magda Mayas.

Posted 21 March 2024

闯辞颈苍听Dr. Christopher Haworth听as he navigates the intricate landscape of 鈥榙eepfake鈥� pop music at Hay Festival 2024 at the University of Birmingham. Haworth will delve into the ethical and cultural implications, pondering the future of artistic ownership in the digital age.

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Posted 21 March 2024

听has shared an informative article on our research team鈥檚 visit to Manchester to give two seminars on听ongoing research projects as part of our public seminar series in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute. Please read more about it from the link below.

Posted 18 March 2024

We are delighted to share that听Rebecca Fiebrink听is the Co-I on a newly funded project titled 鈥淩esponsible AI international community to reduce bias in AI music generation and analysis鈥� , funded by the Responsible AI UK International Partnerships scheme (). Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns (UAL) is the PI.

This project aims to construct and international community that stresses on the challenges and biases on Responsible AI (RAI) in the terms of music generation and examination.

Please find more information on the newly-launched project website:听

Posted 11 March 2024

听now accepts applications for presentations, panels, and workshops. This year鈥檚 theme will be 鈥淧rospects, Challenges and Methodologies of Studying AI Music in the Humanities and Social Sciences鈥� and the conference will be held in Dec 10-12, 2024 Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract

鈥淎I music鈥� (music generated by or with artificial intelligence technologies) is now part of established music ecosystems. While only a few years ago such music was 鈥渙n the fringe鈥�, it is quickly becoming more present and moving into the mainstream due in large part to the commercial exploitability of the technology, what it produces for what it costs, and its growing public accessibility (complete with claims of 鈥渄emocratizing鈥� music production and composition). The development and application of AI to music creation is attracting significant sums of money from private circles, not to mention considerable efforts in academic engineering circles; yet, perhaps with the exception of intellectual property (e.g., legal ownership) and ethics (e.g., responsible use), many topics of AI music remain by and large under-explored by critical examination and reflection in the humanities and social sciences. This motivates several key questions for critical analysis and reflection:

1. How can the AI music ecosystem and its components be formally studied, and what considerations must be made to make sense of it?

2. What challenges arise in the application of established disciplines, such as musicology or ethnomusicology?

3. What are the prospects and challenges for AI Music Studies for the Humanities and Social Sciences in general?

4. What is needed in terms of new methodologies for this area of study, and what interdisciplinary connections are required?

5. How are copyright, and intellectual property more generally, being challenged by the emergent music ecosystem being populated by AI music?

6. What are the implications of AI Music in terms of economic, environmental and sociocultural sustainability?

7. What are perspectives from music ecosystems other than the hegemonial popular music ecosystem of the Global North?

8. What are the positions of music cultures that so far remained largely outside of the digitalization of cultural data?

听explores the prospects, challenges and new methodologies required for the study of AI music within the Humanities and Social Sciences. It aims to bring into conversation scholars working in music computing, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, science and technology studies, philosophy, ethics, economics, feminist and posthumanist studies to help define and develop, or even challenge the need for, a discipline of AI music studies. The three-day conference will feature papers, panels, workshops, a keynote address, and a concert. The keynote address of the conference will be delivered by

We are seeking presentations, panels and workshops for the conference.

Each presentation will be given 20 minutes in a session, and each session will conclude with a podium discussion of its presented works.

Each panel will have 3-5 participants, and last at least 60 minutes with audience discussion. A workshop consists of two hours of directed work and discussion around a topic. To submit a presentation, please write an abstract of no more than 300 words about your work and how it relates to the core themes of the conference. For panels, please write a description of the topics to be discussed and composition of the panel.

For workshops, please write a description of the topics to be worked with, a schedule, and information on the workshop leaders. Email these to听aimusicstudies2024@kth.se听by the date below.

Important Dates:

鈥� Presentation/Panel/Workshop Submission: March 28 2024

鈥� Decision Notification: April 26 2024

鈥� Early Conference Registration: August 30 2024

鈥� Conference: December 10-12 2024

Other information:

The conference registration fee, and the exact location in Stockholm, have yet to be decided. Please see the conference website for the most current information听.

Please send questions or comments to听aimusicstudies2024@kth.se.

• Organising Committee
• Elin Kanhov (KTH, Stockholm)
• Andr茅 Holzapfel (KTH, Stockholm)

• Steering Committee
• Toivo Burlin (Stockholm University)
• Jan-Olof Gull枚 (KMH, Stockholm)
• Hans Lindetorp (KMH, Stockholm)
• Oded Ben-Tal (Kingston University, UK)鈥�
• Nick Collins (Durham University, UK)

Ken D茅guernel (Univ. Lille, CNRS, France)听Thomas Hodgson (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)听听Rujing Stacy Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)听

Posted 22 February

We are pleased and excited to announce an important new open access journal, co-edited by MusAI鈥檚 PI听(UCL) and Tobias Blanke (University of Amsterdam), and published by Cambridge University Press, with the first issues in 2025:

Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society听will be the first international journal to integrate critical social and cultural studies of AI with digital social science and humanities investigations using AI to analyse social and cultural data. The journal takes up a core challenge of our times: how to make sense of and intervene in our entanglement with the emerging regimes of smart machines in order to both harness their positive potentials and mitigate their harmful effects.

For more details please visit:

Posted 21 February 2024

Call for papers: Deadline May 17th

听is leading a workshop on the Study of Commercial Creative AI (ComCAI), which will be held in association with the, a the University of J枚nk枚ping, Sweden, 17th-21st June 2024. From our research team,听听(PI),听听and听听will be active in the organising comittee.

The workshop aims to invite computational creativity community to deep dive in interdisciplinary scope in CC with researchers who are new to creative AI, or the CC literature. The workshops calls for contributing statements that will be part of the structured collaborative mapping session, which will either be a full-day or half day event.

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Posted 12 February 2024

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Posted 09 February 2024

Following a sold-out performance in Paris at IRCAM-Centre Pompidou,听鈥檚 new composition听Prestidigitation II听for Ensemble L鈥橧nstant Donn茅 and 3D electronics will be broadcast by Radio France on February 14th at 8 pm CET alongside works by Gabriella Smith and Steve Reich performed by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. The broadcast will include a binaural rendering of the concert鈥檚 immersive electronics, so high-definition headphones are recommended. The new composition builds on听Prestidigitation听for percussion and 3D electronics, produced in 2022 with support from MusAI. Both works stem from Aaron鈥檚 MusAI research project 鈥淧ermeable Interdisciplinarity: Algorithmic Composition, Subverted鈥�.听

Posted 31 January 2024

听and听听will present at the research forum of听, where they will introduce the MusAI programme and initial work on their Sonic Social Genre project. Join live stream on February 7, 4.15 pm GMT.

Posted 23 January 2024

From mid January to March 1^st, the MusAI research programme (based at 皇家华人鈥檚 Institute of Advanced Studies and UCL Anthropology) is collaborating with the 鈥楢I and the Arts鈥� group at The Alan Turing Institute on the delivery of four public seminars emerging from its research. MusAI is the ERC-funded programme 鈥淢usic and AI: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies鈥�, the first major research initiative to address the implications of AI for culture. It takes music as the medium through which to create a field of critical studies indicative of AI鈥檚 wider influence on culture, bringing together the social sciences and humanities, creative practice, computer science and engineering.

Here are the links for seminars 2, 3 and 4:

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Date: 6 Feb, 4.30 pm

Title: Music and Copyright after Generative AI: Social, Ontological and Legal Perspectives

hosted by听, Institute of Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Presenters:

*Georgina Born (UCL)

*Eric Drott (University of Texas)

*Christopher Haworth (University of Birmingham).

**Featuring an electronic music performance by听Owen Green听(Max Planck Institute) and Jules Rawlinson (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar 3:听

Date: 23 Feb, 3.30 pm

Title: AI and Practice-Based Research in Music and the Arts

hosted by听, Royal Northern College of Music & Manchester University

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Seminar 4:听

Date: 1 March, 3 pm

Title: Towards Radically Interdisciplinary AI Pedagogies

hosted by The Alan Turing Institute, London

Presenters:

*Rebecca Fiebrink (University of Arts, London)

*Owen Green (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics; UCL)

*Oliver Bown (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

The seminar is free and open to the public, both in person and via Zoom. Registration is essential. Please join us for what promises to be a lively series of seminars, with considerable space for discussion and networking. A short description of each of the seminars follows.

Posted 12 January 2024

Generative AI is disrupting various industries, but we don鈥檛 know much about how it will affect the economies of extremely crowded markets. Check out one of our researchers听鈥榮 article at 360:

Posted 12 December 2023

On 15听December 2023, Artemi-Maria Gioti听will deliver a keynote with the title 鈥淒econstructing data: the compositional process as critical inquiry鈥� at the online symposium 鈥淎I in Music 鈥� Agency, Performance, Production and Perception鈥�, organised by the University of Music Trossingen.

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Posted 12 December 2023

On 9 December 2023, one of our core researchers, Artemi-Maria Giotigave a talk with the title 鈥淎rtistic research as technological critique in Bias II for piano and interactive music system鈥� at the Symposium 鈥淎rtistic and Artificial? 鈥� Aktuelle Perspektiven auf k眉nstliche Intelligenz und Musik鈥� organised by DEGEM (German Association of Electroacoustic Music) in L眉beck.

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Posted 12 December 2023

Call for papers for the first International Conference in AI Music Studies

December 10-12, 2024 | Stockholm, Sweden | KTH in the Snow

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural International Conference in AI Music Studies, set to take place from December 10-12, 2024, at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. This event will delve into the 鈥淧rospects, Challenges, and Methodologies of Studying AI Music in the Humanities鈥�.

Professor Georgina Born, PI of MusAI project will be the keynote speaker in this conference.

Call for Papers

Scholars across various domains, including music computing, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, science and technology studies, philosophy, ethics, economics, feminist, and posthumanist studies, are encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration. Selected authors will have the opportunity to present and discuss their full papers during the conference.

Organizing Committee and Steering Committee

The conference is organized by a dedicated committee, with Bob L. T. Sturm (KTH, Stockholm, part of MusAI research)听serving as the chair.

We look forward to your participation in this groundbreaking exploration of AI Music within the Humanities.

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Posted 5 December 2023

At ICMC 2023 in Shenzhen, China, Christopher Haworth听won the best paper award together with Esteban Gutierrez and Rodrigo Cadiz.

Their project is based on auditory distortion products used in musical sound synthesis, working on the creation of 鈥榩hantom鈥� tones which is only hearable for the listener of the auditory distortion products. .

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Posted 5 December 2023

One of our core researchers, Christopher Haworth听was the featured composer at Sound Junction Main Programme at the University of Sheffield on December 2.

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Posted 24 November 2023

PI Georgina Born听is giving a keynote lecture at an international symposium on听鈥業nterdisciplining Knowledge: Humanities, Science and Culture鈥�听at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, on Dec 6, 2023. The title is 鈥楢re there limits? Interdisciplinarities among the social sciences and humanities 鈥� and beyond鈥�.

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Posted 24 November 2023

Join the hybrid book launch and discussion of听鈥淢usic and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology鈥�听on听Tuesday, November 28 at 4 PM听at Royal Anthropological Institute. The event will be hosted by PI Georgina Born, and Gavin Williams will participate in the discussion.

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Posted 29 September 2023

The MusAI Iklektic performance videos have been uploaded to our new .

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Posted 29 November听2022

Prepared piano, handmade percussion, new compositions, and electronic improvisations situate AI with the listener in a unique 3D sound environment. With the explosion in music technologies offering artificial intelligence, artists and musicians are exploring original and meaningful ways to adapt them to creative ends 鈥� often in ways that critique their underlying assumptions. Live performances explore themes of agency and performative creativity to find new ways to control spatial sound, compose algorithmic patterns, and respond to bodily gesture. The performances will be followed by open Q & A and discussion with the artists.听