Panel session
How to pick a winner?
A discussion with the contest jury
DATE: July 6, 2021
TIME: 20.00 - 20.40 CEST
HOSTS: Dr John Ashley Burgoyne
PANEL: Imogen Heap, Mark Simos, Ajay Kapur, Uncanny Valley
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: What did the AI Song Contest jury hear, see, feel, and learn while listening to and reading all the process descriptions for the AI Song Contest entries? During this panel, you will get the inside take from the contest’s guest judges, as well as an overview of the most important statistics and figures from both the jury and the public vote.
Read more about the host and panelists below.
Host
John Ashley Burgoyne is the Lecturer in Computational Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher in the Music Cognition Group at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation.
His Hooked on Music project reached hundreds of thousands of participants in almost every country on Earth while collecting data to understand long-term musical memory. Currently, he is working through the Amsterdam Music Lab to understand what people are hearing – and what they are ignoring – while they stream music every day.
Panelists
As a self-produced composer, recording artist and tech enthusiast for over 20 years, Imogen Heap has multiple awards under her belt, her own independent music label and three honorary doctorates. Never sitting still, she has developed music gestureware MI·MU gloves and an integrated digital ID solution, The Creative Passport, to empower music makers to be the change toward a fair and flourishing music ecosystem.
Mark Simos, Professor in Songwriting at Berklee College of Music (Boston), is a respected songwriter, tune composer, teacher and author, with more than 150 songs recorded by prominent artists such as Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs and others. He has authored two Berklee Press books on songwriting, in addition to articles and book chapters. Prior to Berklee, he spent twenty years in software technology research.
Ajay Kapur is currently the Associate Provost for Creative Technologies at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as the Director of the Music Technology program (MTIID). He also co-founded and advises a Ph.D. Research Group in Wellington New Zealand called Sonic Engineering Lab for Creative Technology. A risk-taker and entrepreneur at heart, he has also co-founded multiple successful companies in the areas of education technology, experiential art, and artificial intelligence.
Uncanny Valley is an Australian music, sound and technology company. Charlton Hill, Justin Shave and Caroline Pegram are armed with decades of experience in the music industry, they are forging the path between artists and technology. They are the winners of the first ever AI Song Contest [‘Beautiful the World] and have an ongoing collaboration with Google’s Creative Lab Sydney on ML tools for Musicians. Uncanny Valley is also behind the creative intelligence of the generative music engine memu.