Gérard Assayag talks to Nick Rothwell about his pioneering work in creative AI and computer music at IRCAM, exploring co-creativity, computer-aided composition, musician–machine interaction and the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and musical performance.
Show Notes
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Background Story
03:18 - Working at IRCAM
05:33 - Computer Science
09:26 - Music Presentation Software
13:13 - Co-creativity with OMax and Somax
16:37 - Exploring Creative AI with REACH
23:45 - Generating Symbolic Scores
28:34 - Music As A Prompt
31:23 - Improtech Workshop Festival
#ircam #openmusic #OMax #Somax #Improtech
Gérard Assayag - Biog
Gérard Assayag is Research Director at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, where he founded the internationally recognised Music Representations team. He also directed IRCAM's Sciences and Technologies of Music and Sound (STMS) laboratory, and led the development of influential computer music software including OpenMusic, Antescofo, Orchidea, OMax and Somax.
Assayag is a co-founder of the Sorbonne University Institute for Music Sciences, the Sorbonne Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the French Society for Computer Music, the International Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music, and the Journal of Mathematics and Music.
His research focuses on computer languages and algorithms for music, computer-aided composition, and creative AI for musician–machine interaction. He is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for REACH (Raising Co-Creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship), an international project exploring creative AI for music. He also performs live as a generative electronic musician using the AI tools he has developed.
https://www.ircam.fr/en/people/grard-assayag
https://www.facebook.com/iIRCAM
https://www.ircam.fr/www.instagram.com/ircam_paris
Interviewer: Nick Rothwell - Biog
Nick Rothwell is a regular Sound On Sound author, composer, performer, software architect, coder and visual artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper, composed sound scores for Aydın Teker (Istanbul / Kapadokya), AWA Dance, Luz Mannion Dance (Flamenco) and Undercurrent Theatre, programmed physical media sculptures with Simeon Nelson and Rob Godman, live coded in Mexico and in Berlin with sitar player Shama Rahman, collaborated with the body>data>space collective in Prague, Paris and Dresden, written software for Studio Wayne McGregor, the Pina Bausch Foundation and Nesta's FutureFest, consulted for Tate Modern, and developed algorithmic visuals for large-scale outdoor projections in Poland, Estonia, Cambridge Music Festival and Lumiere (London / Durham). He has taught design at CODE Berlin and currently runs the Computer Science undergraduate course at University of the Arts London.
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