The Machine Learning for Music Working Group is a community of composers, musicians, computer scientists and audiovisual artists, exploring the creative use of emerging AI and Machine Learning technologies in Music.
The Group is also a collaboration between PRiSM (the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music at the RNCM) and the NOVARS Research Centre at the University of Manchester. Postgraduate students from both RNCM and UoM, as well as guest artists, meet, share and collaborate in the creation of new artistic research, led by Dr. Sam Salem (PRiSM) and Professor Ricardo Climent (NOVARS) and supported by Machine Learning experts at the Alliance Manchester Business School and PRiSM / RNCM.
PRiSM - Royal Northern College of Music
PRiSM is the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music at the Royal Northern College of Music, directed by composer Emily Howard (Professor of Composition, RNCM) and co-directed by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy (Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford).
At its core, PRiSM is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment. Working with our members, students, guest artists and scientists, we are developing a novel collaborative method. PRiSM allows new interdisciplinary expertise to emerge: it encourages the development of new languages and new works that explore the limits of those languages.
Sam Salem is…My first works for live performers, my London Triptych, are based upon the lives of William Blake (Not one can pass away, 2015), Austin Osman Spare (Untitled Valley of Fear, 2016) and Nicholas Hawksmoor (The Great Inundation, 2017), and were written for Distractfold Ensemble. Not one can pass away has received 16 performances by 5 different ensembles. Untitled Valley of Fear was premiered at Darmstadt in August 2016, and has also been performed at Café OTO and HCMF. Untitled Valley of Fear was nominated for a British Composer Award (Sound Art Category) in 2017. The Great Inundation was premiered at Cut & Splice 2017 and subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Sam’s web: HERE
NOVARS - University of Manchester
Established in March 2007, NOVARS Research Centre is home of spin-out ventures in Sonic Arts and geo-locative audio leading to cultural impact but also entrepreneurship in Social Innovation in pursue of social impact.
NOVARS research specialises in the areas of Interactive Music and Media with Machine Learning, Electroacoustic Composition and Game-Audio. Our £2.2 million cutting-edge studio infrastructure has served as the catalyst for focused cross-disciplinary research projects, ranging from music with sports science and biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence for music, spatial-focused acousmatic music for large-scale speaker clusters (the MANTIS Festival), and live performance with videogame subsystems at the intersections of the Virtual and the non-Virtual.
Ricardo Climent is Professor of Interactive Music Composition at University of Manchester (UK) and Director of the NOVARS Research Centre since 2007. He holds PhD and MA in Composition (Interactive Music) from Queens University Belfast and a 5-year Degree in Economic Sciences at the University of Valencia, Spain.
Back in 2018 Ricardo started “Virtuoso” project a VR Training tool for violinists using Machine Learning and Biometrics, in collaboration with Richard Allmendinger (AMBS), Kieron Flanagan (UoM) and Jane McConnell (EON Reality), which led to a current EPSRC DTP grant held at NOVARS.
He is founder at ‘Keep•It•Human’, a Digital Game Ecosystem for Collaborative Altruism. This social venture places sound and music at the core of the experience to connect videogame players with the ownership of social challenges.
AMBS - Alliance Manchester Business School
Alliance Manchester Business School was established in Manchester in 1965 as one of the UK's first two business schools. We are now the UK's largest campus-based business and management school. Research-led, we deliver industry-focused business and management education at all levels.
At Alliance Manchester Business School, ‘Original Thinking Applied’ sits at the heart of everything we do. With triple accreditation from AACSB International, AMBA and EQUIS, we provide world-class, industry-focused education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives across the globe.
Richard Allmendinger received a Diplom in Business Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester (UoM), UK. He is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Decision Sciences at UoM, having worked previously as a Postdoc at the Biochemical Engineering Department, University College London.
Richard's research interests are in the field of data science and in particular in the development and application of optimization and machine learning techniques to real-world problems arising in areas such as healthcare, manufacturing, economics, sports, music, and forensics. Much of research has been funded by UK funding bodies (e.g. ESRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK) and industrial partners. He is a Vice-Chair of the IEEE CIS Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BB) Technical Committee, Co-Founder of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Optimization Methods in BB, and on the Editorial Board of several international journals.
Richard’s web: http://tiny.cc/90qytz