Black Box Fading: (Dis)embodiement with an Immersive Improvisation Machine

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Image Credits: Zurich University of the Arts

Today I attended the public lecture "Black Box Fading: (Dis)embodiment with an Immersive Improvisation Machine" presented by Melody Chua, a Master's student at the ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. There, I learned about the concept of "post-human artist" in the context of music improvisation while interacting with software. The concept is about the value of machines becoming "improvisation" experts complementing human artists during performance, by for example, predicting future tones based on previous ones, or replicating human movements with motion-capture to play similar instruments. I think this is an exciting field of AI application. It would be interesting to explore how tagging sections of recorded movement and sound with feelings/thoughts humans had while experiencing music could help to teach machines to understand human emotions. This could be used, for example, to co-create music with machines based on the feelings we express while creating sounds, and in this way, build sort of therapies while interacting with machines. I am excited about all what is being researched in ML and its different applications.
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