AI & Music

  • Walzersymphonie

    Walzersymphonie

    The year 2025 marks the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss Jr. – a composer who shaped the history of music with works such as the Danube Waltz and operettas like “Die Fledermaus” (The Bat) and “Eine Nacht in Venedig” (A Night in Venice). On behalf of Johann Strauss Festjahr 2025 Wien, the Ars Electronica Futurelab…

  • transart23: Pianographique

    transart23: Pianographique

    Music and Images by Humans and Machines

    The program “Pianographique – Music and Images by Humans and Machines” was showcased at the acclaimed multidisciplinary festival transart23 in Bolzano, South Tyrol, on September 21, 2023. It combined two current artistic research projects of Ars Electronica, both dedicated to the creative fusion of instrumental music and digital technologies.

  • Sounding Letters

    Sounding Letters

    The idea of Sounding Letters is to use the initial letters of Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ars Electronica Center as a musical theme and to compose a piece of music based on this theme by using an AI system. Both the Ars Electronica Futurelab and the Ars Electronica Center celebrated their 25th anniversaries in 2021.

  • Ricercar

    Ricercar

    An AI-based Musical Companion

    Ricercar is an interactive AI-based music composition system. The word Ricercar refers to a musical form of the Baroque and Renaissance and means “to search out” in its Italian origin. Composers used this term for pieces in which they experimented with a theme or musical idea and discovered its qualities such as permutation and variation possibilities…

  • AI x Music

    AI x Music

    Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center

    The potential of artificial intelligence in musical applications has been demonstrated by various projects in recent years. Modern AI can certainly be seen as another step towards expanding musical possibilities through the use of technology.

  • Mahler-Unfinished

    Mahler-Unfinished

    Music made by man and machine: For the Big Concert Night at the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, Ali Nikrang, Key Researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, added to Gustav Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony – together with an artificially intelligent algorithm.