Toward an Ecosystem of Artificial Intelligence–Powered Music Production (TEAMuP)
Research project
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to help musicians produce and share their work more effectively and independently.
Quick facts
Director/PI: URochester principal investigators Raffalla Borasi (Warner School), Rachel Roberts (Eastman School), Zhiyao Duan (Hajim School) & Jonathan Herington (School of Medicine), and Northwestern University principal investigator Bryan Pardo (McCormick School of Engineering)
Funding: National Science Foundation $1.8 million grant
Partners: URochester's Eastman School of Music, Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Warner School of Education and Human Development; Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering
Overview
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Rochester has partnered with the Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering to lead the National Science Foundation–funded project “Toward an Ecosystem of Artificial Intelligence–Powered Music Production” (TEAMuP). The initiative aims to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help musicians produce and share their work more effectively and independently while building an open, AI-powered music ecosystem that offers tools, training, and ethical guidance.
TEAMuP researchers will pursue these goals through several complementary efforts:
- Creating an open-access framework that enables musicians and AI researchers to collaborate on new music production solutions. These tools will run on Audacity, a free, open-source digital audio workstation used by more than two million people.
- Examining the opportunities and challenges that arise from using AI in music production.
- Developing learning opportunities to help current and future musicians better understand and use emerging technologies.
Raffaella Borasi, Frederica Warner Professor Director of the Center for Learning in the Digital Age at the Warner School of Education and Human Development, contributes her expertise on the applications and implications of AI, helping the team explore how these technologies may influence arts education and what they could mean for education more broadly.
As part of Rochester’s NSF-funded TEAMuP project, a free summer camp for high school students is on the campus of the Eastman School of Music. The week-long program introduces students to digital music production tools and explores creative applications of AI.