Panel session
Feedback loop: ML, Music, and Sound Design
DATE: July 6, 2021
TIME: 16.00 - 16.40 CEST
HOSTS: Anna Huang and Hendrik Vincent Koops
PANEL: Teams from AI Song Contest 2021
REGISTER: This session is part of the 4-day Music & Innovation Summit by Wallifornia MusicTech. You can register for the whole event here, and attend all sessions for free.
ABSTRACT: In 2020, many teams of the AI Song Contest approached the music and sound design aspects of their entry separately, using different ML models. This year, we see teams crossing that boundary, seeding generative audio models with symbolically generated material performed and produced by the teams’ musicians, and vice versa where the generated strange audio glitches, rhythms, and sonic textures fuel the symbolic and emotional structure of their song, creating a new kind of call and response and interdependence between music and sound design.
Read more about the hosts and panelists below.
Hosts
Anna Huang is a Research Scientist at Google Brain, working on the Magenta project. She is the creator of Music Transformer, and the ML model Coconet that powered Google’s first AI Doodle, the Bach Doodle, which in 2 days harmonized 55 million melodies from users around the world. She holds a PhD from Harvard University, masters from the MIT Media Lab, and bachelors in music composition from USC.
Hendrik Vincent Koops is an AI researcher and composer, holding degrees in Sound Design and Music Composition from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, and degrees in Artificial Intelligence from the Utrecht University. After a research internship at Carnegie Mellon University, he completed his PhD in Music Information Retrieval at Utrecht University, studying the computational modeling of variance in musical harmony. Currently, he is working on AI Multimedia projects at RTL Netherlands.
Panelists
The panelists of this session are members from two teams that participate in the AI Song Contest 2021.
Team M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D.
Team M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D. is music/AI researcher Jon Gillick, music producer Max Savage, literary/AI scholar Matt Sims, and singer-songwriter Brodie Jenkins. And AI.
Read more and listen to their AI Song Contest entry here.
Team SOUND OBSESSED
Portrait XO is an artist who creates musical and visual works with traditional and non-traditional methods. She researches computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and sound. Ramon Riezouw is a music producer and songwriter based in Berlin, better known for his voice in electronic pop group NIHILS and solo project Rezar. With growing curiosity towards the human voice and the applications of AI, a collaborative effort formed in Spring 2021 with Portrait XO to explore and play with AI-generated vocals in new and unpredictable ways.
Read more and listen to their AI Song Contest entry here.