ΤΡΙΤΗ 20/5 στις 12.00 - αίθουσα 917

AI and music: is the problem solved?

Abstract: There have been spectacular developments in the domain of AI-assisted music creation in recent years. However, one can ask what exactly is the problem addressed, and how far it can be considered as solved. I will review some recent developments in AI-assisted music creation, including some of my own teams at Sony and Spotify, and highlight what are, in my opinion, the main obstacles in developing truly useful AI-assisted tools for music in the future.

Short Bio: François Pachet has been a researcher in AI and music for the last 25 years. He has been the director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab, where he designed the next generation of AI-based tools for musicians. With the label Flow Records he released Hello World, the first music album composed with artificial intelligence. This album is the result of the collaboration between AI, Benoit Carré aka SKYGGE and many other musicians. Prior to Spotify, François Pachet has been director of the SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris. At SONY he set up a music research working on interactive music listening, composition and performance. There he conducted the ERC-funded Flow Machines project during which he developped technologies for style imitation under user constraints. This project produced the first mainstream music title: “Daddy’s car”. François is also a guitarist, and composed and published several albums. His latest book Histoire d’une oreille is an augmented book about how a musical ear develops through music listening.