The Music in the Real World Colloquium presents a Symposium on Music AI, featuring a presentation by celebrated composer, inventor, and educator Tod Machover, Tuesday, February 18, 8:00 p.m., in Turner Recital Hall. As a special bonus, the evening will include the world premiere of a duo for marimba and AI composed by Machover and performed by Blair percussion professor Ji Hye Jung. 

Join us for an exploration of both the positive and negative impacts that advanced artificial intelligence is having—and seems poised to exert even more dramatically—on the creation, performance, and enjoyment of music. 

As part of the Colloquium series, event admission is free. Tickets are still required.

About Tod Machover: 

Called “America’s most wired composer” by the Los Angeles Times and a “musical visionary” by The New York Times, Tod Machover is recognized as one of the most innovative composers active today, praised for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries and for developing technologies that expand music’s potential for everyone, from celebrated virtuosi to musicians of all abilities. Machover studied with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM in Paris. He is academic head of the MIT Media Lab, where he is the Muriel R. Cooper professor of music and media and director of the Opera of the Future Group. Machover is also visiting professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. 
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Venue: Turner Hall, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music 
Address: 2400 Blakemore Ave., Nashville, TN 37212 
Parking: Free parking is available at the Vanderbilt West Parking Garage on Childrens Way, directly across from Blair School of Music.