AI, Music and the Change of the Audience - Ars Electronica Blog

IRCAM, the world's largest research center dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research, is a partner of the Ars Electronica Festival 2019. The institution is also involved in the STARTS Initiative as coordinator of the STARTS Residencies and will present these activities at the STARTS Day. Hugues Vinet, head of research activities at IRCAM, told us in an interview how the institute works, why AI has social relevance and what role he and his team will play at the festival. Hugues Vinet: My background is signal processing. I worked from the mid 1980s at the Musical Research Group (GRM) in Paris on the first real-time audio workstations and I designed the early versions of the GRM Tools product which made creative audio processing tools broadly available on personal computers.