Creative Musical Dialogues Between Humans and Machine

Tuesday 31 Mar 2026, 19:00 → 20:30 Europe/Berlin

ArtLab (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)

Concert

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. Improvisation melds together most aspects of music—listening, performing, creating, evaluating—live and in real-time. Getting an AI system to participate in this type of music-making is very challenging. However, doing so, and doing it well, raises intriguing questions about the nature of creativity and the ability of computers to be a source of inspiration for us. At the concert, you will hear two renowned pianists—David Dolan, and Fredrik Ullén—improvising live with each other (duo) and with this system (duo and trio). After the concert the audience will be invited to chat with the performers to learn more about their approach to improvisation and working with a musical AI. This public concert is part of an art/science project that is aimed at studying improvisation and joint action between humans and machines funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

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