Conference Program
Important: The program is provisional and subject to updates.

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)
- Speculations on the Age of HyperReproduction: AI Agents, Latent Floods, Simulacral Loops and Synthetic Abundance - Guilherme Coelho (Technische Universität Berlin)
- The Artist Is Present: Traces of Artists Residing and Spawning in Text-to-Audio AI - Guilherme Coelho (Technische Universität Berlin)
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)
- Deviations in Forking Paths: Mapping Nonlinear Agencies in Live Electronic Improvisation - Juan Parra Cancino (Orpheus Institute); Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute)
- 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)
- Latent Music: Emergent Sonic Forms and Sonic Liminality in Text-to-Audio Systems - Guilherme Coelho (Technische Universität Berlin)
- 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.
Thursday:
- Latent Music: Simulacral Sound Objects and Interreferential Drifts - Guilherme Coelho (Technische Universität Berlin) Friday:
- The Terms Remain - Bob Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
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)
- Thing’s 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
- 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)