Southampton University Presents
Jazz as Social Machine
The age of AI jazz is dawning. Huge advances in computing power and machine learning technology mean that algorithms can now improvise in the style of the jazz greats. Has another classic human activity been “taken over” by computers? Or is future jazz going to be a ‘social machine’ where people and machines work together to create great music? We explored this in our successful concert on the 19th March as we saw how humans and machines can make music together. We will soon be inviting you to join our conversation about music and machine learning, and will be giving you a taste of the concert in Season 2 of Sounding History podcast.
We were joined by jazz stars Julian Argüelles (saxophone) and Jasper Høiby (bass), as well as Southampton’s new professional jazz ensemble the Dan Mar-Molinero Jazz Orchestra and their special guest the Jazz Transformer Algorithm from Taiwan to find out. The event included a roundtable discussion featuring the artists in conversation with Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and Dr Thomas Irvine, Associate Professor in Music and Turing Fellow, followed by a concert of jazz standards like you might not have heard them before.
We look forward to sharing this event with you so make sure to sign up to our newsletter to be notified about the launch of Season 2.
Produced by the University of Southampton Department of Music, Turner Sims Southampton and the Southampton Web Science Institute in association with the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.
