FIERY ENCOUNTERS XVII
Composing with technology in the age of AI, between perils and opportunities
Round table
Program
Description
The many technological tools available today facilitate the creative process, making it accessible to the majority of people. Various consumer software programs now enable us to compose works which, decades ago, would have required many years of specialized training. What's more, in the contemporary music world, many composers use computer-aided composition, enabling them to speed up the composition process, or perform calculations and analyses that would otherwise be impossible. Now that artificial intelligence is getting involved, the limits are being pushed even further.
If technology becomes a necessary tool for creation, how free are we in our creative gesture? Doesn't this create a form of dependency and thus a certain enslavement? Or on the contrary, won't these technologies enable democratization and wider access to musical creation?
As for artificial intelligence, is it a threat or a help for the creator? Does composing with artificial intelligence mean relinquishing or even shirking one's responsibility as a creator?
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A-833 (Lounge)
Schulich School of Music
Elizabeth Wirth Music Building
527 rue Sherbrooke O
Montréal QC H3A1E3
Canada
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