[Commlist] Event on Music and Artificial Intelligence

*Music and Artificial Intelligence: Pasts and Futures, Opportunities and 
Risks*

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*May 28 2019, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University*

Given escalating public concerns over the implications of Artificial 
Intelligence, this conference probes AI’s cultural implications through 
the enduring relationship between music and AI – evident in the 
influence of cybernetics on music, in Marvin Minsky’s work at MIT, and 
recently in the burgeoning field of Music Information Retrieval. 
Speakers will probe the risks and opportunities associated with music

recommendation algorithms, automated genre mapping tools, emotion 
recognition systems, and machine learning-based creative tools. Issues 
are likely to include automating musical creativity, biases in 
recommendation algorithms, the long-term cultural effects of AI in 
music, and the desirability of transparency and accountability. If, as 
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler put it, ‘the new gold rush in the context 
of AI is to enclose different fields of human knowing, feeling and 
action, in order to capture and privatize those fields’, then how is 
music inflected by these imperatives, what might be done to alter them, 
and what musical futures will result?


http://aias.au.dk/events/aiasconference-musicandartificialintelligence/

AIAS CONFERENCE 
<http://aias.au.dk/events/aiasconference-musicandartificialintelligence/>
Date: 28 May 2019. Given escalating public concerns over the 
implications of Artificial Intelligence, this conference probes AI’s 
cultural implications through the enduring relationship between music 
and AI – evident in the influence of cybernetics on music, Marvin 
Minsky’s work at MIT, and the burgeoning field of Music Information 
Retrieval.
aias.au.dk



Speakers include: Jonathan Sterne(McGill), Eric Drott (U. of Texas, 
Austin), Nick Seaver (Tufts U.), Rebecca Fiebrink (Goldsmiths), Chris 
Haworth (Birmingham), Aaron Einbond (City U.), and Fernando Diaz 
(Microsoft Research, previously director of research at Spotify). The 
organiser is Georgina Born (Aarhus and Oxford).

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