13:00 - 15:00 (BST) Machine Learning DEMOS & POSTERS:

DEMOS: (at HIVE, room 3.004)
• BEATBOXING-AI TEAM DEMOS: (Ricardo Climent, Giorgos Gargalas, Hongshuo Fan, Alena Mésárosová, Manu Ferrer). Click for poster
- RAVE AUDIO AI DEMO: Live Generation of trained Beatboxing Material with Greek beatboxer champion Giorgos Gargalas, using IRCAM’s cutting-age algorithm
- MOCAP TRAINING DEMO for 3D models of  Virtual Beatboxer using Japanese Noh Masks – Real Time Facial Capture algorithm for 3D models

• MIXED REALITY AR/VR - Chris Rhodes new immersive Mixed Reality Work, Membrana Neopermeable. (Virtual Reality headset)

• PRiSM SampleRNN DEMO – PRisM  (from 2-3 pm) - A project including development of the code prism-samplernn, a computer-assisted compositional tool released on GitHub in June 2020 as part of PRiSM Future Music #2 - by Christopher Melen
• ARTISTIC SONIFICATION OF DEEPFACE controversial algorithm: ‘Feeling by Numbers’ – Joshua Gardner (NOVARS)
•  The Fluid Corpus Manipulation project (FluCoMa) - Ted Moore

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POSTERS: (at HIVE Space, room 3.004) Best Student Paper Award Posters:

• New Interfaces for Classifying Performance Gestures in Music (2019) —Conference Paper at Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning IDEAL 2019 Best Student Paper Award Authors: Chris Rhodes, Richard Allmendinger, Ricardo Climent. 

• SonOpt: Sonifying Bi-objective Population-Based Optimization Algorithms (2022) — EvoMUSART 2022 Best Paper Award • Authors: Tasos Asonitis, Richard Allmendinger, Matt Benatan, Ricardo Climent. Click to see poster
• VR2: Virtual Reality Research Facility Poster: VR2: Cutting-edge virtual reality and motion capture research at UoM. A tool for researchers to capture data for AI training purposes.

13:00 - 15:00 (BST) VIDEO-LOOP SHOWCASE BY ML4M GROUP
Works by:
• Vicky Clarke (Novars Resident Artist) – Dreaming with Machines 2022 documentary (with Brighter Sound) and  "Aura Machine"
• Zakiya Leeming (PRiSM) – "Sad Dog Eating"
• Hongshuo Fan (Novars) – "Metamorphosis"
• Tywi J H Roberts (PRiSM) – "Blodeuwedd"
• Ellen Sargen (PRiSM) and Sarah Watts (Bass Clarinet)– "You May Own Us But We Are Going To Inform On You"
• Robert Laidlow (PRiSM) – "Rose Green"
• Tasos Asonitis (Novars) – "Symbiosis As A Metaphor"
• Chris Rhodes (Novars) – "Semiconductor"
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15:00 - 17:00 (BST) SCHEDULED TALKS (ML4M GROUP)

Creative uses of Artificial Intelligence in music composition and performance.
• 15:00 -15:20 Bofan Ma (PRiSM / RNCM) - Music-making, AI, and Transnational Identity
• 15:20 -15:40 Zakiya Leeming (PRiSM / RNCM) – [Intermittent] Cat: Dataset design #2 considerations & observations
• 15:40 -16:00 Jason Dominguez (Computer Science / UoM) – "Controllable Music Composition Tools Using Knowledge-Enhanced Generative Deep Learning"
• 16:00 -16:20 Tom Baker (Computer Science / UoM) – 'Teaching the AI technique: A Guitar Performance model'
• 16:20 -16:40 Ricardo Climent – Noh •○ Virtual (2022), a duo for human beatboxer and Digital-Twin
• 16:40 -17:00 Ted Moore – The Fluid Corpus Manipulation project (FluCoMa)

Join us for an exciting concert of new works that explore how machine learning is changing and challenging human creativity (and vice versa!).

Unsupervised 2 will feature new works by:

Concert 1: 18:00 - 19:00

• Megan Steinberg – “Outlier TT”
• Bofan Ma – “Bofan Ma, Outtakes III”
• Tasos Asonitis – “Exhibits”
• Zakiya Leeming – “[Intermittent] Cat” – with Josh Allen (Tuba)

Concert 2: 19:30 - 20:30

• Ricardo Climent – with beatboxer Giorgos Gargalas (a collab. with Hongshuo Fan, Alena Mésárosová and Manu Ferrer), “Noh Virtual, for beatboxer and digital twin”
• Melanie Wilson – with Héloïse Werner (voice), “Dreaming Species”
• Nina Whiteman – “Fuming”
• Hongshuo Fan - with Rocío Bolaños (Bass Clarinet), “Conversation in the Cloud”,

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