Music and Digital Humanities: AI and Creativity in Music (David De Roure, Oxford)

It may feel like the AI world has just discovered music, but there have been decades of research in music and AI. When we look at humans improvising live with AI we are asking fundamental questions about what it means to be a creative human interacting in a world infused by AI, and this is a question that transcends music. This talk will present some explorations of this question through projects with the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) at the
Royal Northern College of Music, featuring AI in both composition and performance.

David De Roure is Academic Director of Digital Scholarship and Professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford. He has co-founded multiple interdisciplinary centres, including the Centre for Practice and Research in Science and Music (PRiSM) at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the UK Software Sustainability Institute. David's research is at the intersection of music, maths, machines and AI, empowering the creative human in music composition and performance. David is also an advisor on digital research infrastructures, and has been involved in running the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School since 2011.

The Distinguished Lecture Series Music and Digital Humanities at mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna invites leading international experts in diverse aspects of DH to share their perspectives with our students, faculty, and community. The series is aimed at a broad, non-technical audience. It provides a varied overview of the history and current state of DH as it applies to music, its philosophical underpinnings and societal implications, and is expected to yield insights into relevant methodologies, technologies, infrastructures, and applications working with humanities datasets.

Topics include data management and computational analysis for digital musicology, digital editions, DH and artificial intelligence, machine learning and music information retrieval, as well as pedagogy, science communication, and citizen science. The series is convened by Chanda VanderHart and David M. Weigl, digital musicology researchers at the mdw's Department for Music Acoustics — Wiener Klangstil, and organized in collaboration with the mdw's Department of Musicology and Performance Studies.

Lectures will be presented in English.

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This project is funded by CLARIAH-AT with support from the BMFWF.

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