Research Internship Position in Co-creative AI

We have a new project received seed funding from MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity and we are looking for one motivated MS student:

Title: Agency and Control in Musical Ensemble

The central inquiry of the project concerns the location of creative agency when no individual agent, whether human or artificial, ever perceives the complete work.

The project investigates where creative agency is located when neither human nor machine ever perceives the complete musical composition. A work is constructed from an ensemble of agents that never interact directly — one shapes rhythm, another timbre, a third the overall structure, and a fourth, a digital signal-processing layer, determines acoustic feasibility. An additional, often unacknowledged contributor is introduced: using RITMO’s Oslo Standstill recordings of individuals attempting, yet failing, to stand still during musical playback, the involuntary micro-movements of audience members’ bodies generate the rhythmic foundation, allowing the audience to contribute to the composition prior to experiencing it. The project quantitatively assesses the proportion of the final work attributable to these absent bodies, to each machine agent, and to their collective interaction.

We will collaborate closely with RITMO and MishMash researchers.

Ideal candidate: someone with expertise in deep learning + interest in music

Salary is 40k NOK.

Please send me an email if you are interested in this position!!
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