AI & Music 2021 Sessions
The sessions are online and free, allowing access to anyone. In each of the three events, the specialists will show and talk about different aspects and creative processes using AI. Fostering education, gender equity and the ethical use of AI.
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Session 1 · Musical Improvisation with AI
Wednesday, March 10
18h - 19:30h CET
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.
Ramon López de Mántaras · Barcelona
Presenter and Moderator of the debate.
Mark d'Inverno & Matthew Yee-King · London
Featuring ‘AI Musician’ (Live performance)
Sara Sithi-Amnuai · Los Angeles
Featuring ‘Nami’, a glove interface.
Augusto Sarti & Clara Borrelli · Milano
Featuring 'Virtual Duo'

Moderator
Ramon López de Mántaras
Ramon López de Mántaras Badia is Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC

Speaker
Mark d’Inverno
Researcher and academic at the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has m

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Matthew Yee-King
Programme Director, Computer Science BSc online. Goldsmiths, University of London. British electron

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Sara Sithi-Amnuai
Sara Sithi-Amnuai is a professional musician, composer, and creative technologist based in Los Angel

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Augusto Sarti
Full Professor of Music and Acoustic Engineering. Politecnico di Milano. Augusto Sarti received b

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Clara Borrelli
Clara Borrelli was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1992. She received the B.Sc. degree and M.Sc. in Computer
Session 2 · Musical Composition with AI
Thursday, April 8
18h - 19:30h CET
The second event explores Music composition with AI and it will debate around these questions: What is a musical composition and How is it related to creativity? This session includes music performances and a debate. In the end, the audience will be able to engage with the participants through Q&A.
Ramon López de Mántaras · Barcelona
Presenter & Moderator of the debate.
Marco Schorlemmer · Barcelona
Featuring 'Chameleon'
Emilios Cambouropoulos & Danae Stefanou · Thessaloniki
Featuring 'Chameleon'
Ferran Cruixent & Artur Garcia-Saez · Barcelona
Featuring 'Human Brother'
Artemi - Maria Gioti · Graz
Featuring 'Bias'

Moderator
Ramon López de Mántaras
Ramon López de Mántaras Badia is Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC

Speaker
Marco Schorlemmer
Dr. Marco Schorlemmer is a Tenured Scientist at IIIA-CSIC and head of its Multiagent Systems departm

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Emilios Cambouropoulos
Emilios Cambouropoulos is Professor of Musical Informatics at the School of Music Studies, Aristotle

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Danae Stefanou
Danae Stefanou is Associate Professor at the School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessa

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Ferran Cruixent
Ferran Cruixent (Barcelona, 1976) Ferran Cruixent is one of the most performed catalan composers wo

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Artur Garcia-Saez
Artur Garcia-Saez is a physicist and engineer and works at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. His

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Artemi – Maria Gioti
Artemi - Maria Gioti is a composer and researcher working across the disciplinary boundaries between
Session 3 · Musical Performance & Education with AI
Thursday, May 6
18h - 19:30h CET
The third event explores on Musical Performance and Education with AI and it will debate around these questions: What is musical performance and how is it related to creativity? What are the challenges for fostering creativity in musical education? Can AI help students improve interpretation and creativity? How AI technology can promote inclusion in musical studies? Should we need to improve the incorporation of women in this artistic discipline?
Sergio Giraldo · Barcelona
Presenter and Moderator of the debate.
Rafael Ramírez · Barcelona
Featuring ‘TELMI’
George Waddell · London
Featuring ‘TELMI’
Anna Xambó · Leicester
featuring 'MIRLCa'
Luisa Pereira · New York
featuring 'The Code of Music'
Enric Guaus · Barcelona
Alia Ahmed Morsi · Barcelona

Moderator
Sergio Giraldo
Sergio Giraldo, is a post-doc researcher at the Music and Machine Learning Lab of the Music Technolo

Speaker
Rafael Ramírez
Professor and Leader of the Music and Machine Learning Lab at the Department of Information and Comm

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George Waddell
Research Associate in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music. He is also a Sessional Lect

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Anna Xambó Sedó
Anna Xambó is a Senior Lecturer in Music and Audio Technology at De Montfort University (Leicester,

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Luisa Pereira
Luisa Pereira is a computational artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. Her interactive music pi

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Enric Guaus
Enric Guaus (Barcelona, 1974) is a researcher at the Musical Creation and Performance research group

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Alia Ahmed Morsi
Alia Ahmed Morsi is a first year PhD. student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra's Music Technology Group (