AIMC 2026 – Artificial Intelligence Music Creativity
Theme: The Generative Turn. Examines how AI-driven systems reshape music creation, performance, listening, authorship, labour, and value in an age of hyper-reproduction.
📅 16–18 September 2026
Deadline: 04/04/2026
#AI #MusicAndAI #ComputationalCreativity #DigitalMusic #Musicology #DigitalMusicology #ComputationalMusicology
New article on Sounding Future: Concept-based Explanations for Music Emotion Recognition
https://www.soundingfuture.com/en/article/concept-based-explanations-music-emotion-recognition
By Verena Szojak, Verena Praher
NEW 📣 Artificial intelligence in music: feared, trivialized, demonized (part 1) by ✍️ Markus Deisenberger
Artificial intelligence is changing the professional world, including that of musicians. But what do music creators have to fear from AI?
#musicandai #chatgpt #SharmienZandi #composition #Artificialintelligence
💡 **Are We Building Robots That Can Replace Creatives?** 🎨📝🎶
As AI models get better at writing, making art, and even composing music, there's a BIG question on people's minds: **Are we building machines that can replace human creativity?** 🤖
### 🤔 **What’s Happening?**
AI is now good enough to generate high-quality content that rivals **average** or even **above-average** writers, artists, and musicians. These models can create polished content quickly and efficiently—sometimes even better than a human, at least in routine tasks.
But, what does this mean for real people in these fields? 😬
### 💼 **Job Displacement**
Like machines in factories 🏭, AI in creative fields is raising concerns about jobs. Writers, designers, and musicians who rely on producing mid-tier work—like **marketing content**, **stock music**, or **logo designs**—now face competition from AI models that can work 24/7 and churn out content super fast! 🚀
### 🎨 **Devaluing Creativity**
Even though AI can’t yet create **groundbreaking** art or **deeply emotional** stories, it can generate content that’s "good enough" for many purposes. This worries artists and writers who feel that the uniqueness of **human creativity** could get devalued over time. 😟 If AI can pump out music or artwork, will we still care as much about human-made creations? 🤷♀️
### 📉 **Raising the Bar**
For many average-to-above-average creators, the fear is that **AI-generated content** will raise the bar 🎯 for what’s considered acceptable or excellent. If AI can produce high-quality work consistently, humans may have to work even harder to stand out, making it more difficult to get recognition or make a living. 💸
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### 🔥 **The Upside: AI as a Creative Tool** 🛠️
But it’s not all doom and gloom! 🌈 Some creators see AI as a tool to **enhance** their work, rather than replace them. 🎨 Writers might use AI for brainstorming 💡, artists could use it to **generate ideas** for new projects, and musicians can refine compositions using AI’s pattern-recognition abilities. 🎵 **Collaborating with AI** could open doors to new levels of creativity and innovation! 🚪✨
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### 🚨 **What’s the Real Concern?**
🖼️ People screaming about **"copyright theft"** might misunderstand the issue a bit. AI isn’t just **copying** someone’s work—it’s learning from huge amounts of data to generate **new** content based on patterns. So, while it’s not exactly "theft," the worry is more about **AI flooding the market** with work that can replace **human-made** creativity.
### ⚠️ **Commodification** of Creativity
One big issue? 🤔 If AI can mass-produce creative work, it risks turning **art and writing** into commodities that are valued more for **quantity** than quality. 😔 This could hurt artists who pour their heart and soul into their work. ❤️
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### ⚖️ **Ethical Questions** ❓
Should artists, writers, and musicians be **compensated** if their work is used to train these AI models? 💰 How should we handle the **moral implications** of machines producing human-like creative works? These are BIG questions that are still up for debate. 🗣️
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### 🛠️ **The Future?**
AI is unlikely to replace the **most innovative** creators (we still need humans for that spark of genius 🔥!), but it’s already shaking up industries by automating creative tasks. So the future might look more like humans and AI **collaborating** than competing. 🤝
**What do you think?** Will AI push us into a new golden age of creativity, or is it a threat to human artistry? 🌟
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### 🏷️ **#AIArt #AIWriting #Creativity #ArtificialIntelligence #TechEthics #FutureOfWork #ArtAndAI #DigitalArt #MusicAndAI #Innovation**
NEW 📣 Article of the day ✍️ Gerhard Nierhaus: On Composers and Computers
The article describes the manifold interactions between composers and computers in the creative process.
EN: https://www.soundingfuture.com/en/article/composers-and-computers
#algorithmiccomposition #computermusic #GerhardNierhaus #electronicmusic #SoundingFuture #historyofcomputermusic #musicandai #ircam #iem #ComputationalCreativity #GenerativeMusic
Petr Nuska
Sounding Future
Nicola Monopoli
Legends and Lotties