The International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity was held in Oxford from 9th to 11th September. As well as an exciting academic programme, the conference featured three evenings of live concerts – “Collisions” in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, “Machine Self” in the Denis Arnold Hall in Oxford’s Music Faculty, and a “Club Night” in the Common Ground community arts space.

Local conference chair David De Roure said:

“There was so much creative expertise and energy at the event, and it was fabulous to see an emphasis on AI being used to enhance human creativity” 

The conference opened with an insightful keynote by Maya Ackerman, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University and CEO/Co-Founder of musical AI startup WaveAI. 

 

London-based pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga, who has previously performed in the Jesus College Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, closed the event with a talk about his UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Cyborg Soloists. 

 

The wide-ranging programme was developed by an international organising committee and featured papers, tutorials, workshops and demos, as well as the ambitious live music concerts organised by Robert Laidlow. The conference chairs were Oded Ben Tal from Kingston University and David De Roure, Academic Director of Digital Scholarship and Professor of e-Research in Oxford, and Technical Director of the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) at the Royal Northern College of Music.

 

This was the fourth conference in the AIMC conference series, and we were proud to deliver it in Oxford through a truly cross-University collaboration. The conference was hosted by the Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster and led by Digital Scholarship at Oxford (DiSc) in partnership with Oxford e-Research Centre and the TORCH Performance Research Hub, together with colleagues in the Faculty of Music and in the Centre for Digital Scholarship in the Bodleian Libraries.  

 

 

Find Out More

•  The International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity website
• David De Roure profile page
• Maya Ackerman, Santa Clara University
• Zubin Kanga website
• Jesus College: New Hub events explore music in the digital age
• Cyborg Soloists: Advancing Interdisciplinary Music in the Post-Internet Age Through New Musician-Technology Interactions
• AIMC 2024: People
• Robert Laidlow, Jesus College
• Oded Ben-Tal, Kingston University London
• The RNCM Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM), Royal Northern College of Music