International Conference in AI Music Studies, 2026Info Location Attendee Categories Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionDepartment of Music and the Mixed Reality Lab, School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham present The Second International Conference in AI Music Studies: Inside the Music: Prospects, Challenges and Methodologies of Studying AI Music in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/i2mt/events/aims-2026-conference.aspx
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Attendee CategoriesEarly Bird Delegate - STUDENT
Additional ItemsContactThis event will be held at -Department of Music, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD.
A full refund will be available for cancellations up to the 28th February. Thereafter no refunds are available. If you need to cancel, please email your request to the event organiser - More InformationBuilding on the success of the First International Conference in AI Music Studies at Stockholm in 2024, this conference will continue the theme but with a tilt towards expanding the discourse from inside musicking (Small 1989). Because of this we are still interested in ""AI music"" (music generated by or with artificial intelligence technologies) and its incorporation in established music ecosystems. While only a few years ago such music was “on the fringe”, it is quickly becoming more present and moving into the mainstream due in large part to the commercial exploitability of the technology, what it produces for what it costs, and its growing public accessibility (complete with claims of ""democratizing"" music production and composition). The development and application of AI to music creation is attracting significant sums of money from private circles, not to mention considerable efforts in academic engineering circles; yet, perhaps with the exception of intellectual property (e.g., legal ownership) and ethics (e.g., responsible use), many topics of AI music remain by and large under-explored by critical examination and reflection in the humanities and social sciences. This motivates several key questions for critical analysis and reflection: 2. How can the AI music ecosystem and its components be formally studied, and what considerations must be made to make sense of it? 3. What challenges arise in the application of established disciplines, such as musicology or ethnomusicology? 4. What are the prospects and challenges for AI Music Studies for the Humanities and Social Sciences in general? 5. What is needed in terms of new methodologies for this area of study, and what interdisciplinary connections are required? 6. How are copyright, and intellectual property more generally, being challenged by the emergent music ecosystem being populated by AI music? 7. What are the implications of AI Music in terms of economic, environmental and sociocultural sustainability? 8. What are perspectives from music ecosystems other than the hegemonial popular music ecosystem of the Global North? 9. What are the positions of music cultures that so far remained largely outside of the digitalization of cultural data? We are seeking presentations, panels and workshops for the conference. Each presentation will be given 20 minutes in a session, and each session will conclude with a podium discussion of its presented works. Each panel will have 3-5 participants, and last at least 60 minutes with audience discussion. A workshop consists of two hours of directed work and discussion around a topic. To submit a presentation, please write an extended abstract of 300-500 words about your work and how it relates to the core themes of the conference. For panels, please write a description of the topics to be discussed and composition of the panel. For workshops, please write a description of the topics to be worked with, a schedule, and information on the workshop leaders. Submission: https://forms.office.com/e/gyZWxjK2L7
Other information: Please send questions or comments to craig.vear@nottingham.ac.uk Publication Keynotes: Funding Acknowledgment | |||||||||||||||