Time: April 9, 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Speakers: Przemyslaw Bosak
Since the onset of computers, they have been used to create new modes of expression, enhance creativity, and make complex artistic forms possible, always at the service to the artist, though. Is AI a threat to upset this decades-old hierarchy? If so, how? What does the future look like for musicians in the age of Generative AI? In this presentation Przemyslaw Bosak will attempt to answer these questions by tracing the evolution of human-machine collaboration in music, drawing examples from important historical figures and his own musical practice. The talk will highlight the importance of University of Illinois (the birthplace of computer music) in how it’s shaped this evolution for generations of musicians.