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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS, PANELS and WORKSHOPS

    The First International Conference in AI Music Studies:
  Prospects, Challenges and Methodologies of Studying AI Music
            in the Humanities and Social Sciences

               Dec 10-12, 2024 Stockholm, Sweden

https://boblsturm.github.io/aimusicstudies2024

"AI music" (music generated by or with artificial intelligence 
technologies) is now part of 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:

1. How can the AI music ecosystem and its components be formally 
studied, and what considerations must be made to make sense of it?
2. What challenges arise in the application of established disciplines, 
such as musicology or ethnomusicology?
3. What are the prospects and challenges for AI Music Studies for the 
Humanities and Social Sciences in general?
4. What is needed in terms of new methodologies for this area of study, 
and what interdisciplinary connections are required?
5. How are copyright, and intellectual property more generally, being 
challenged by the emergent music ecosystem being populated by AI music?
6. What are the implications of AI Music in terms of economic, 
environmental and sociocultural sustainability?
7. What are perspectives from music ecosystems other than the hegemonial 
popular music ecosystem of the Global North?
8. What are the positions of music cultures that so far remained largely 
outside of the digitalization of cultural data?

The First International Conference in AI Music Studies explores the 
prospects, challenges and new methodologies required for the study of AI 
music within the Humanities and Social Sciences. It aims to bring into 
conversation scholars working in music computing, musicology, 
ethnomusicology, sound studies, science and technology studies, 
philosophy, ethics, economics, feminist and posthumanist studies to help 
define and develop, or even challenge the need for, a discipline of AI 
music studies. The three-day conference will feature papers, panels, 
workshops, a keynote address, and a concert. The keynote address of the 
conference will be delivered by Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology 
and Music at University College London.

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 
abstract of no more than 300 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. Email these 
to [log in to unmask] by the date below.

Important Dates:
- Presentation/Panel/Workshop Submission: March 28 2024
- Decision Notification: April 26 2024
- Early Conference Registration: August 30 2024
- Conference: December 10-12 2024

Other information:
The conference registration fee, and the exact location in Stockholm, 
have yet to be decided. Please see the conference website for the most 
current information https://boblsturm.github.io/aimusicstudies2024. 
Please send questions or comments to [log in to unmask]


Organising Committee
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Bob L. T. Sturm (KTH, Stockholm), chair
Elin Kanhov (KTH, Stockholm)
André Holzapfel (KTH, Stockholm)

Steering Committee
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Toivo Burlin (Stockholm University)
Jan-Olof Gullö (KMH, Stockholm)
Hans Lindetorp (KMH, Stockholm)
Georgina Born (University College London, UK)
Oded Ben-Tal (Kingston University, UK)’
Nick Collins (Durham University, UK)
Ken Déguernel (Univ. Lille, CNRS, France)
Eric Drott (University of Texas, USA)
Thomas Hodgson (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Jonathan Sterne (University of McGill, Canada)
Rujing Stacy Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Ollie Bown (UNSW Sydney, Australia)

-- 
Bob L. T. Sturm, Associate Professor
Tal, Musik och Hörsel (Speech, Music and Hearing)
Lindstedtsvägen 24
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Royal Institute of Technology KTH, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
https://musaiclab.wordpress.com

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