Musical Improvisation with AI
Channel: ARTIFICIA
Date: 2021-03-10

This event includes live music performances and a discussion on creative AI for music improvisation.

The speakers' presentations and the subsequent discussion will address topics such as the complexity of the human creative process, the creative aspects around improvisation, or whether AI can emulate jazz music's spontaneity.

In the end, the audience will be able to engage with the participants through Q&A.

https://www.artificia.pro
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Ramon López de Mántaras: Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, and pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Europe, with contributions, since 1976, in Pattern Classification, Approximate Reasoning, Expert Systems, Machine Learning, Case-Based Reasoning, Autonomous Robots, and AI & Music. Author of nearly 300 papers. Invited plenary speaker at numerous international conferences.
https://www.artificia.pro/team-member/ramon-lopez-de-mantaras
 
Mark d’Inverno is a researcher and academic at the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has mostly investigated the role Artificial Intelligence plays in learning and creativity practices. How do creativity, learning, and AI relate to each other? ¿What are the possibilities and limits for AI to support, challenge and provoke human creativity?  Mark is a critically acclaimed jazz pianist and, over the last four decades, has led a variety of bands across a wide range of music, including the Mark d’Inverno Quintet.
https://www.artificia.pro/team-member/mark-dinverno

Matthew Yee-King is a British electronic musician, percussionist and researcher based in London, performing music as Yee-King. He is known for bringing an education in science and genetics into music, including his celebrated 2001 Drill 'n' bass release SuperUser released by Rephlex Records, his work with Finn Peters in making music from brainwaves, and his doctoral work on applying Artificial intelligence techniques to automatic synthesizer programming. "Goodnight Toby", a track from SuperUser, was listed in the top 100 greatest IDM tracks by FACT magazine. As of 2020, he is a lecturer in the department of computing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
https://www.artificia.pro/team-member/matthew-yee-king

Sara Sithi-Amnuai is a professional musician, composer, and creative technologist based in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA in Performance & Composition at the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Ethnomusicology (Jazz Trumpet) and a Music Industry minor from UCLA. Sithi-Amnuai’s recent work focuses on the intersection between identity, improvisation, and live performance interaction between the performer's body and their instrument through gesture and sound. Her latest work is Nami, a custom built glove interface designed for live musical performance utilizing gesture recognition tools and community research.
https://www.artificia.pro/team-member/sara-sithi-amnuai

Augusto Sarti: Full Professor of Music and Acoustic Engineering. Politecnico di Milano. He is a co-founder of the Image and Sound Processing Group of the Politecnico di Milano, and its first laboratory, the Image and Sound Processing Lab (Milano Leonardo Campus). He established two more laboratories: the Sound and Music Computing Lab; and the Musical Acoustics Lab (Cremona campus). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, elected member of the Audio and Acoustics Signal Processing Technical Committee (AASP-TC), Senior Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters and Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing.
https://www.artificia.pro/team-member/augusto-sarti

Clara Borrelli was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1992. She received the B.Sc. degree and M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Pisa and Politecnico di Milano in 2014 and 2018 respectively. She is currently a PhD student in Information Technology working with the Image and Sound Processing Lab of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.  Her research interests concern the application of machine learning and deep learning to sound and music computing and music information retrieval tasks. 
https://www.artificia.pro/team-member/clara-borrelli
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0:00 Nikol Kollars introduces ARTIFICIA
4:48 Ramon López de Mántaras Welcome
12:11 Speakers presentation
15:10 Mark d'Inverno & Matthew Yee-King (AI Musician)
28:25 Sara Sithi-Amnuai (NAMI)
32:30 An Exploration of 3 Japanese Stories
38:35 Augusto Sarti & Clara Borrelli (Virtual Duo)
55:47 Debate
1:10:17 Q&A with the Audience
1:27:37 Ramon L.M. asks Mark d'Inverno if we need to use AI for musical improvisation
1:28:18 Mark d'Inverno responds
1:30:38 Ramon L. M. ends the session and asks Mark to play live to finish
1:31:05 Mark d'Inverno playing the piano
1:31:32 Ramon López de Mantaras thanks the participation of the speakers and also the audience for following the session online
1:35:09 Thanks to collaborating institutions