Learn about a hybrid emotional AI for electronic music, Oct. 9

The School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence invite you to an enlightening event that explores the intersection of music and artificial intelligence.

Join us as Jean-Claude Heudin, renowned scientist, composer and AI expert, delves into the role of algorithms in music creation. Many people, even musicians, hesitate to embrace the idea that music can be represented and composed through algorithms. However, algorithms have long played a crucial role in music’s evolution, and artificial intelligence is its natural progression.

In this session, Heudin will offer a historical overview before introducing ANGELIA, his groundbreaking AI project designed for electronic music. ANGELIA is a hybrid emotional AI that functions as a music companion, collaborating with musicians to compose and perform. Using bio-inspired algorithms like neural networks, Markov chains and genetic algorithms, ANGELIA pushes the boundaries of human-AI creativity. Connected to a modular synthesizer, it becomes a hyperinstrument that creates emotionally responsive, dynamic music.

About the speaker

Jean-Claude Heudin holds a doctoral degree and a director of research degree from the University of Paris-Sud. He has authored numerous scientific papers and books on AI and complexity science, with a focus on emotional AI in contemporary electronic music. Learn more about his work.

ANGELIA: A hybrid emotional AI for electronic music
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024
4:30–6:30 p.m.
Stauffer Communication Arts Building (STAUF) B127, Tempe campus [map]
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This event offers a rare glimpse into the future of AI-driven music composition. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to experience the fusion of technology and art!

Free and open to the public!