The Emerging Landscape of AI in Music Composition and Production

Join MFA in Music Composition Faculty Member Ravi Krishnaswami on Wednesday, December 4 at 6pm ET for a talk on The Emerging Landscape of AI in Music Composition and Production.

It’s been a dizzying year of news and product launches in the world of music and tech. For professional composers and songwriters, prompt-based generators like Suno, Udio, and Stable Audio, can seem like existential threats to their careers. On the flip side, AI-powered features like stem separation and generative MIDI programming coming to DAWs like Logic Pro can open up new workflows and creative possibilities. Coming at the midpoint in Ravi’s dissertation research on this subject, this presentation and discussion will cover several areas that may be of interest to composers: 

• the difference between symbolic (i.e. MIDI-based) and audio systems
• how songwriters are already using AI for voice and lyrics
• the current legal thinking around copyright, fair use, training, and outputs
• who is working on this research, and why
• what these systems actually “know”
• the environmental and ethical questions surrounding AI
• what lies ahead

Register in advance here or at the link below.

Ravi Krishnaswami is a PHD candidate at Brown University researching intersections between technology, political economy, and creativity. His dissertation research focuses on AI and automation in music for media. He is a composer and sound-designer for advertising, television, and games, and is the co-founder of the award-winning production company COPILOT Music + Sound. He plays guitar in The Smiths Tribute NYC and has premiered concert works for sitar, violin and percussion/live processing, studying with Srinivas Reddy, Lu Wang and Butch Rovan. He is the Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College and a founding faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts.