Artificial intelligence is transforming how we compose, perform, listen to, and think about music and sound. From real-time improvisation systems to generative audiovisual environments, creative agency is increasingly shared between human and computational actors.
Co-Creativity in Music, Sound, and AI: Improvisation, Interaction, Composition explores these transformations, with a special focus on Somax2 (IRCAM’s AI-driven improvisation system) and other machine-learning–based tools for music and audiovisual art. The conference brings together scholars, composers, performers, technologists, and media artists to reflect on co-creativity as a relational, hybrid process distributed across humans, machines, and environments.
The event is also the flagship public project of the EARS InterArts Lab at the Culver Center, connecting research, teaching, and public-facing artistic production and is supported by a 2025–26 Conference Award from the UCR Center for Ideas and Society, which recognizes the project’s interdisciplinary approach and its contribution to advancing dialogue on music, sound, and artificial intelligence across the humanities and the arts.