Jazz as Social Machine AI and JAZZ, University of Southampton
"Music is data. AI researchers are beginning to use this data to create machines that make music. This project takes jazz improvisation as a (thorny) example of a problem that haunts AI-generated art: what happens to the human? The answers to this question will be in the form of scholarly and creative reflection."
I am currently a Research Fellow on this project which is led by Dr. Tom Irvine at the University of Southampton. Tom is currently a Turing Fellow and has received funding for this project from the Alan Turing Institute. Turing AI fellowships are created to "support a diverse AI research community and enable new models of collaboration across sectors in AI". This project is really taking me out of my comfort zone as a composer allowing me to explore various themes within Jazz and AI, two areas of which I have little experience in but have been eager to learn more about.
My role within this project is to create a sound installation that responds and explores the themes within this project. "The centerpiece of the project is a public-facing creative-artistic response to the problem of AI jazz. This will be flanked by more traditional academic outputs and networking events involving academic partners from arts and computer science institutions in the UK, US and Taiwan. Both forms of intervention aim to reach a wide and diverse audience, and lay the groundwork for larger research projects."
People:
Dr. Tom Irvine, Associate Professor in Music, University of Southampton. Global Music history and jazz expert
Dr. Valentina Cardo, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton is also part of the research team bringing her expertise in politics, gender and digital media to the project.
Dr. Brona Martin, Composer and Sound Artist in Creative Music Technology
"Music is data. AI researchers are beginning to use this data to create machines that make music. This project takes jazz improvisation as a (thorny) example of a problem that haunts AI-generated art: what happens to the human? The answers to this question will be in the form of scholarly and creative reflection."
I am currently a Research Fellow on this project which is led by Dr. Tom Irvine at the University of Southampton. Tom is currently a Turing Fellow and has received funding for this project from the Alan Turing Institute. Turing AI fellowships are created to "support a diverse AI research community and enable new models of collaboration across sectors in AI". This project is really taking me out of my comfort zone as a composer allowing me to explore various themes within Jazz and AI, two areas of which I have little experience in but have been eager to learn more about.
My role within this project is to create a sound installation that responds and explores the themes within this project. "The centerpiece of the project is a public-facing creative-artistic response to the problem of AI jazz. This will be flanked by more traditional academic outputs and networking events involving academic partners from arts and computer science institutions in the UK, US and Taiwan. Both forms of intervention aim to reach a wide and diverse audience, and lay the groundwork for larger research projects."
People:
Dr. Tom Irvine, Associate Professor in Music, University of Southampton. Global Music history and jazz expert
Dr. Valentina Cardo, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton is also part of the research team bringing her expertise in politics, gender and digital media to the project.
Dr. Brona Martin, Composer and Sound Artist in Creative Music Technology
