Artificial Intelligence in music raises fundamental questions about creativity, authorship, and human-machine collaboration. Among creatives there is a mixture of enthusiasm, skepticism, and uncertainty about AI’s potential and risks. In this symposium, we invite artistic responses to this mixture, to see what happens when artists collaborate with AI to explore, reflect, and critique its impact. Questions we seek to explore include: how do machine-generated expressions shape artistic intent? What sounds, expressions, emotions, meanings, and reflections do such experimentation contain? What does AI bring to a creative process, and what does it take away? What are the limitations of meaningful use of AI, if any? How can AI be used to include or exclude?
Machines – Moving – Music will showcase artistic projects, performances, installations, keynotes, and panel discussions that explore these issues.
The symposium is a prelude for MishMash – Centre for AI & Creativity, a comprehensive partnership led by The University of Oslo. We invite MishMash partners, artists, researchers, and teachers to participate.
The symposium Machines – Moving – Music is a collaboration between The Norwegian Academy of Music and CreaTeME – The University of Agder’s Centre for Excellence in Creative Use of Technologies in Music Education.
Dates: October 23rd – 24th 2025
Place: The Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo/Norway
Machines – Moving – Music is a free event, but you will have to register by 21st October to attend.
PROGRAM
23rd October
10:00 Opening, welcome, Vivianne Sydnes, Vice-Principal (NMH)
10:15 Fears, formulas, and frontiers: AI, the artist, and the edges of creativity, Keith Negus (UiA)
11:00 An Oracle of Sounds, Zoe Efstathiou (NMH)
11:30 Vibecoding is punk. Programming 3.0 is the future. Why I still Code, Koka Nikoladze (NMH)
12:00 Lunch break (healthy lunch available in the cafeteria)
13:00 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music, Jennifer Walshe
13:45 Rhythm and intentionality in computer assisted music making, Øyvind Brandtsegg (NTNU)
14:30 Break (refreshments)
15:00 Panel: Zoe Efstathiou, Hanne Hukkelberg (NMH), Koka Nikoladze,
Torun Eriksen (UiA), Øyvind Brandtsegg, Dadabot, chaired by Daniel
Nordgård (UiA)
16:00 Prompt Jocking, talk-performance by Dadabots
17:00 Finish
There are a variety of restaurants near Majorstua that we recommend for dinner. We hope to see you at The Pub on Majorstuveien 34 for a drink or two, later in the evening.
24th October
09:00 Breakfast, speed-dating (for MishMash-partners)
10:00 Cybernetic Listening and Technodiversity Exploring Ecologies of Human and Machine – Tertiary Protentions, talk-performance by Nicola L. Hein
(Musikhochschule Lübeck)
10:45 Music Improvisation with Co-Creative Agents, Talk-performance by Alessandra Bossa (UiA) and Marco Fiorini (IRCAM)
11:30 Short break
11:40 MishMash – exploring AI and creativity between art and science, Alexander
Refsum Jensenius (UiO)
12:30 Lunch break (healthy lunch available in the cafeteria)
13:30 Performance by Zoe Efstathiou – prepared piano, Lene Grenager – cello,
Anders Tveit – electronics
14:00 Identity Dissolution, Alexander Schubert
15:00 Panel: Nicola L. Hein, Lene Grenager, Marco Fiorini, Alessandra Bossa,
Anders Tveit, Alexander Schubert, chaired by Alexander Refsum Jensenius
16:00 Finish
Read more about the AI Symposium on NMH’s website: