Symposium “Kinds of Musical Minds: On Creativity, Computation & Cognition in Music”

4:30pm – Welcome Apero – BC Terasse

6pm – Welcome BBQ – Lake

9:15am – Welcome and Retrospective on DCML – Martin Rohrmeier – BC410

9:30am – Session 1a: Music, Structure & Computation

Structures and Patterns in Music – Martin Rohrmeier (EPFL)
Keynote: Can Machines be Creative? From AlphaGo to Large Language Models -Thore Graepel (Altos Labs)

11am (End at 11:45) – Session 1b

All that Beautifies is not Decoration – Towards an analytical and perceptual reconsideration of musical embellishments- Uri Rom (Tel Aviv University)
Strict Traditions or Fertile Mindscapes? My experience performing, improvising, and composing classical music – Kit Armstrong

12pm – Lunch

2pm – Session 2: Music Cognition – BC410

Who’s paying attention? Neural embeddings vs. human listening – Ashley Burgoyne (University of Amsterdam)
Enculturation in Music – Marcus Pearce (Queen Mary)
Title TBA – Robert Lieck (Durham University)

4pm – Panel: Human and Artificial Creativity, kinds of musical minds

Martin Rohrmeier, Thore Graepel, Uri Rom, Kit Armstrong, Ashley Burgoyne, Marcus Pearce, Robert Lieck

6pm – Dinner

8pm – Concert – SG Foyer

9:30am – Session 3: Musical Creativity and Improvisation – BC410

Improvisation and Structure in Non-Western Music – Richard Widdess (SOAS) – Online
Singing with Strangers: The social significance of music – Ian Cross (Cambridge)
Music is an Experience of Time – Eric Schaefer (HMT Leipzig)
Creativity, Music & Machines – Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute)

11:30am – Panel: Musical Creativity and Improvisation

12:30pm – Lunch

2pm – Session 4: Music & Computation – BC410

A Theory of Groove – Jason Yust (Boston University)
Challenges in designing a real-time interactive system and their implications – Joris Monnet (EPFL)
Panel: Computation and cognitive (live) modeling
- Jason Yust, Joris Monnet

4pm – Student presentations and project showcase – INN 115

Marina Borsodi-Benson, Zeng Ren, Xinyi Guan, Joris Monnet, Edward Hall, Maik Koster, Nicolas Ren

6pm -Travel to dinner

6:45pm – Dinner in Lausanne

10am – Session 5: Theory and Cognition – BC410

Challenges in musical form building – Markus Neuwirth (Bruckner Uni Linz)
Listening as grammar-based parsing and pattern recognition: skeleton for a unified model – Gabriele Cecchetti (Western Sydney University)

11:30am – DCML past and future