Oral Session 1: Understanding and innovating AI music creation

• Methodological Considerations of Digital Ethnographic Studies in the AI Music Field - Yiren Zhao (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Elin Kanhov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Bob L. T. Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• AI-assisted Sound Design with Audio Metaphor (AuMe): An Evaluation with Novice Sound Designers - Ge Liu (Simon Fraser University); Keon Ju Lee (Simon Fraser University); Miles Thorogood (University of British Columbia); Christopher Anderson (University of British Columbia); Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University)
• Crafting Musical Agents: Interactive Generation as a Catalyst for Artistic Formalization - Jérôme Nika (IRCAM); Diemo Schwarz (IRCAM); Augustin Müller (IRCAM)
• Sampling the Latent Space: Exploring the Creative Potential of Generative AI Through the Lens of Sample-Based Music Making - Ashley Noel-Hirst (Queen Mary, University of London); Charalampos Saitis (Queen Mary, University of London); Nick Bryan-Kinns (University of the Arts London)
• From Generality to Mastery: Composer-Style Symbolic Music Generation via Large-Scale Pre-training - Mingyang Yao (University of California San Diego); Ke Chen (UCSD)

Oral Session 2: Design concepts in AI music systems

• A Short Review of Responsible AI Music Generation - Elizabeth Wilson (Creative Computing Institute; University of the Arts, London); Anna Wszeborowska (Creative Computing Institute; University of the Arts, London); Nick Bryan-Kinns (Creative Computing Institute; University of the Arts, London)
• Evaluating Low-Dimensional Latent Representations as a Creative Interface for Digital Synthesizers - Matthew Peachey (Dalhousie University); Sageev Oore (Dalhousie University); Joseph Malloch (Dalhousie University)
• The Shape of Surprise: Structured Uncertainty and Co-Creativity in AI Music Tools - Eric Browne (MTU)
• Navigating Abstract Timbre Spaces: Instrumental Affordances of Concatenative Synthesis in Mosaïque - Dominic Thibault (Université de Montréal); David Piazza (Université de Montréal); Mimi Allard (Université de Montréal); Mathieu Arseneault (Université de Montréal); Gaël Moriceau (Université de Montréal)
• Using Large Language Models as Fitness Functions in Evolutionary Algorithms for Music Generation - Fabian Ostermann (TU Dortmund); Jonas Kramer (TU Dortmund); Günter Rudolph (TU Dortmund)

Oral Session 3: Philosophy, politics, culture, practice

• Jazz in the Age of Algorithmic Alienation: AI as a Catalyst for Critical Improvisation - Sri Hanuraga (UPH Conservatory of Music); Stevie J. Sutanto (UPH Conservatory of Music)
• Exploring Situated Stabilities of a Rhythm Generation System Through Variational Cross-Examination - Błażej Kotowski (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Nicholas Evans (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Behzad Haki (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Frederic Font (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Sergi Jorda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
• Assessing Expectancy Bias in Listener Evaluations of AI and Human Music Compositions - Michael Oehler (Osnabrück University); Benedict Saurbier (Osnabrück University); Jan Schepmann (Osnabrück University)
• The Artist Is Present: Traces of Artists Residing and Spawning in Text-to-Audio AI - Guilherme Coelho (Technische Universität Berlin)
• Deviations in Forking Paths: Mapping Nonlinear Agencies in Live Electronic Improvisation - Juan Parra Cancino (Orpheus Institute); Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute)

Oral Session 4: Interaction between musical elements

• Beat-Flow-Interplay (BFI): Interactive Tools for Responsive Beat-Flow Production - Israel Neuman (Texas Southern University)
• Towards an Ecosystem of Instruments of Tunable Machine Learning - Andrea Martelloni (University of Sussex); Chris Kiefer (University of Sussex)
• MAAL: a multi-agent autonomous live looper for improvised co-creation of musical structures - Vincenzo Madaghiele (University of Oslo); Stefano Fasciani (University of Oslo); Tejaswinee Kelkar (University of Oslo); Çağrı Erdem (University of Oslo)
• Learned Navigation of StyleGAN3 Latent Space from Audio Descriptors - Ted Moore (Composer)
• Learning Relationships Between Separate Audio Tracks for Creative Applications - Balthazar Bujard (STMS IRCAM-CNRS-Sorbonne Université); Jérôme Nika (STMS IRCAM-CNRS-Sorbonne Université); Nicolas Obin (STMS IRCAM-CNRS-Sorbonne Université); Frédéric Bevilacqua (STMS IRCAM-CNRS-Sorbonne Université)

Lightning Session 1:

• Assessing the Alignment of Valence and Arousal between Text Prompts and the Resulting AI-Generated Music - Xinyue Hu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Bob Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• Exploring Procedural Data Generation for Automatic Acoustic Guitar Fingerpicking Transcription - Sebastian Murgul (Klangio GmbH); Michael Heizmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• SMART: Tuning a symbolic music generation system with an audio domain aesthetic reward - Nicolas Jonason (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Luca Casini (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Bob Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• Generative Variational Autoenconder model of musical scales based on Slominsky’s thesaurus - Benjamin Saldías (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile); Denis Parra (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile); Marcelo Mendoza (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile); Rodrigo Cadiz (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
• Conditional Generation of Bass Guitar Tablature for Guitar Accompaniment in Western Popular Music - Olivier Anoufa (Centrale Lille); Alexandre D’Hooge (Université de Lille); Ken Déguernel (CNRS)
• Ontologies of Sound in Neural Network Engineering - Riccardo Ancona (Università di Bologna)
• Large Language Models to generate sonic behaviors: the case of Wilding AI in exploring creative co-agency - alexandre saunier (LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven); Federico Visi (Luleå University of Technology / Universität der Künste Berlin ); Maurice Jones (Concordia University)
• AI in Music and Sound: Pedagogical Reflections, Post-Structuralist Approaches, and Creative Outcomes in Seminar Practice - Guilherme Coelho (Technische Universität Berlin)
• Basso Continuo Goes Digital: Collecting and Aligning a Symbolic Dataset of Continuo Performance - Adam Štefunko (Charles University); Suhit Chiruthapudi (Johannes Kepler University); Jan Hajič (Charles University); Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón (Johannes Kepler University)
• Toolkit of Care (TOC) - Alexandros Drymonitis (Cyprus University of Technology)

Lightning Session 2:

• Unsupervised generative chord representation learning and its effect on novelty-creativity and fidelity-standards - Agustín Macaya (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile); Denis Parra (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile); Rodrigo Cadiz (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
• Incorporating Structure and Chord Constraints in Symbolic Transformer-based Melodic Harmonization - Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas (Hellenic Mediterranean University); Dimos Makris (Hellenic Mediterranean University); Konstantinos Soiledis (Hellenic Mediterranean University); Konstantinos-Theodoros Tsamis (Hellenic Mediterranean University); Vassilis Katsouros (Athena Research Centre); Emilios Cambouropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
• Entangled Voices: AI, Intra-action, and the Body Multiple in Creative Practice - Fábio Maria Pereira (Goldsmiths University of London); Mathew Yee-King (Goldsmiths University of London); Jenn Kirby (University of Liverpool)
• A Practice-Based Methodology for Capturing Embodied Gesture-Rhythm Relations in Small Datasets - Evan O’Donnell (Goldsmiths, University of London); Patrick Hartono (Goldsmith, University of London)
• HuBERT Ensemble Models for Singing Voice Deepfake Detection - Gabriel Levine ( Department of Applied Mathematics, Hunter College, The City University of New York); Drew Thurlow (Opening Ceremony Media); Jon Arfa (Independent Researcher); Sarah Ita Levitan (Hunter College)
• She’s Lost Control Again: The Next Generation Of Copyright Challenges Over Next-Generation Interactive Music - Zachary Cooper (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Building Calliope and Apollo: Engineer-Designer Reflections on Computer-Assisted Composition Systems - Renaud Bougueng Tchemeube (Simon Fraser University); Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University)
• Composer as Constrainer in Model-Led Piano Sheet Music Generation - Simon Colton; Louis Bradshaw (Queen Mary University of London); Berker Banar (Queen Mary University of London); Keshav Bhandari (Queen Mary University of London)
• Automated Pop-to-A Cappella Score Generation - Tak-ai Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Wing-fung Lo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Chuck-jee Chau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• SonicVerse: Multi-Task Learning for Music Feature-Informed Captioning - Anuradha Chopra (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Abhinaba Roy (Singapore University of Technology and Design); Dorien Herremans (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

Workshops

• Workshop 1: Musical Agents Tutorial
  • Keon Ju Lee (Simon Fraser University); Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University); Arne Eigenfeldt (Simon Fraser University); Jérôme Nika (IRCAM); Balthazar Bujard (IRCAM); Notto J. W. Thelle (Oslo Metropolitan University); Bernt Isak Wærstad (Freelance artist); Oliver Bown (University of New South Wales)
• Workshop 2: Choir in the Loop: Singer-Aware AI Composition Practice
  • Filippo Carnovalini (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Ward Gauderis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Joris Grouwels (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Margot Van den Brande (Café Latte: The VUB Choir); Geraint Wiggins (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Installations

Installations will be set up and remain available during the poster sessions.

• (On Thursday) The Terms Remain - Bob Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• (On Friday) Latent Music: Simulacral Sound Objects and Interreferential Drifts - Guilherme Coelho (Technische Universität Berlin)

Concerts

• Concert 1: Compile-time (Promotiezaal, VUB)
  • Guest opening: AI Musicking (Creatie Group)
  • Noise through to twos and sevens - Tanguy Pocquet (University of Manchester)
  • Grammatical Synthesis of Sonic Forms: A Symbolic-Acoustic Framework for Creative Recomposition in Riot Spa Areal Nit Asian Tutu - Ivan Simurra (Universidade Estadual Campinas - UNICAMP)
  • Composing with an AI-Generated Sound Corpus: Reflections on My Computer’s Interpretation of Falling - Stevie Sutanto
  • The composer as vibe specialist - Der Küchenchef (Kök)
  • Fuzzy Creativity: Composing with Uncertainty in Incerta - Rodrigo Cadiz (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
  • PATIENCE X: Extended artistic expression in AI-assisted music composition - Lois Macdonald (SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Concert 2: Run-time (Salle Delvaux, ULB)
  • Revival: Artistic Collaboration and Improvisation between Humans and AI in Music and Visual - Keon Ju Lee (Simon Fraser University)*; Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University); Jun Yuri (Independent Artist)
  • Live Coder in the Loop: Performing with an Autonomous Agent - Elizabeth Wilson (Creative Computing Institute; University of the Arts, London)
  • Broken Forecasts: Feedbacking Latent Generators for Sonic Instability - Błażej Kotowski (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • EVAL for Commodore 64 - Yigit Kolat (University of Washington)
  • Cybernesis: An Improvisational Performance Exploring Gesture Control of Hardware Synthesizers - David Piazza (University of Montreal)
  • Recursive Misinterpretation II - Carlos Román (Louisiana State University)*; Roberto Mochetti (Independent); Jesse Allison (Louisiana State University)
  • Cognitive Feedback - Eric Guizzo
  • tinySounds - Arne Eigenfeldt (Simon Fraser University)
• Concert 3: The Instrument in the Loop (La Tricoterie)
  • Guest opening: Creatie Group
  • COMACROB - Alexandros Drymonitis (Cyprus University of Technology)
  • Things AIn’t What They Used To Be - Mark Whitlam (Univeristy of Bristol)
  • Jamming With Planet Earth - Tae Hong Park (Purdue University)
  • Music for Multimodal Agents - Experiment in Improvisation and Feedback Loop - Veera Jussila; Derek Yau
  • The Third Man - Adam Wilson (City University of New York)
  • Recursive speculation - Vincenzo Madaghiele (University of Oslo); Kelsey Cotton (Chalmers University of Technology)
  • Information Storage and Retrieval - Molly Jones (University of Michigan)