Conférence en ligne de Thor Magnusson, « On AI Prosthetics. Notating for Intelligent Instruments », organisée par l’AMS Notation, Inscription, Visualization Study Group, 12h EST, 5 décembre 2023.

« Intelligent instruments are a result of how contemporary AI technologies are becoming integral components of our musical ecosystems. The application of creative AI can range from automatic music creation to the embedding of intelligent algorithms in the instrument itself. In this talk I will compare the Socratic elenctics, a philosophical method of inquiry, with the way we engage with modern creative AI systems. The new prosthetics are those of the mind as well as the body. 

But what does this mean to the way we compose and notate music for these new instruments? Based on experience in practice-based research on creative AI systems, Magnusson will present a new mode of exploration and enquiry that emerges when we encounter an intelligent instrument and begin to discover their ergodynamics. The HCI notion of interactivity moves aside for autonomy and a stronger perception of agentical relations through dialogue, probing, curiosity, surprise, alterity and collaboration. When our musical instrument becomes an interlocutor with a strong agency our interaction shifts more to that of prediction, expectation, and confirmation, resulting in a heightened improvisational approaches and posing problems for prescriptive notation. »

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