Creative Musical Dialogues Between Human and Machine

Wednesday Sep 17, 2025, 7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Europe/Berlin

ArtLab (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)

THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED

However, you can watch it live via our YouTube channel.

 

Concert with Panel Discussion

You probably heard about how AI is going to take over the world. Come and listen to an alternative perspective: AI as a musical partner. Since 2022, Oded Ben-Tal has been developing JHAIMI (Joint Human AI Musical Improvisation), an AI-inspired system capable of improvising with human performers.

At the concert, you will hear three renowned pianists—Ralph Abelein, David Dolan, and Fredrik Ullén—improvising live with each other (duo) and with this system (duo and trio). These improvisations will be intertwined with explanations of how the AI system works and how the pianists and the computer create music together.

This public concert is part of an art/science project that is aimed at studying improvisation and joint action between humans and machines. You will have an opportunity to participate in a discussion with scientific experts and professional musicians on the theme of human–computer co-creativity.