Audvarp podcast #24 Music and Artificial Intelligence

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Þórhallur Magnússon, music creation with artificial intelligence

podcast number 25

The future visited set to discuss music creation with artificial intelligence.


Þórhallur Magnússon, professor of future music at Sussex University's music department and research professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, talks about artificial intelligence, creativity and music.


The 24th episode of Auðvarpsin deals with today's issues. What is artificial intelligence? What is music? What does the next instrument look like? How is artificial intelligence used in music creation?


Þórhallur is a sea of ​​knowledge about artificial intelligence, musical instruments and creativity. Very effective work and research that Þórhallur is in charge of. Þórhallur created the opening theme of the Audna podcast. In this episode, we drafted the next theme. Stay tuned!


It is worth noting that in year 1961 the first song was sung by a computer speech synthesizer (IBM 7094). The song is called "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)".
A milestone that is referenced in the 1968 film
2001: A Space Odyssey. The film broadly revolves around the discovery of a mysterious object buried beneath the surface of the Moon and the subsequent sending of a spacecraft to Jupiter to find the object's origin, a spacecraft that is staffed by two people and the supercomputer HAL 9000. You can listen to the song Daisy Bell with Hal 9000 in 2001 Space Odyssey here.


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