Decentralised Creativity and Agential Systems in Music

Conference Schedule
(details in progress)

DAY 1 — Monday, 17 November 2025

Introduction 9:00–9:30
  • Introduction — Adam Łukawski and Martin Zeilinger
  • Posthuman Music: Creative Practices after AI and Blockchain (ERC Advanced Grant) — Paulo de Assis
Academic Panel 1 Session 1 9:30–11:00 Chair: Martin Zeilinger
  • Agency and Synthetic Media: A New Musical Ontology of AI Music — Thor Magnusson
  • Sonic techno-ecologies and ethics of more-than-human data practices — Elin Kanhov & Petra Jääskeläinen
  • The Age of Agentfullessness — Christof Migone
Coffee Break Break 11:00–11:30
Keynote 1 Keynote 11:30–13:00 Victoria Ivanova & Eva Jäger Chair: Adam Łukawski
Lunch Break 13:00–14:00
Academic Panel 2 Session 2 14:00–15:30 Chair: Martin Zeilinger
  • Listening After Computation: Visceral Abstraction, Suprasensible Experience, and the Temporality of Artificial Intelligence — David Cecchetto
  • Stilling the Machine: Searching for Eloquent Silence within Generative Music Systems — Guy Livingston
  • On Geomusical Intelligence — Ilpo Jauhiainen
Coffee Break Break 15:30–16:00
Keynote 2 Keynote 16:00–17:30 Timothy Morton Chair: Martin Zeilinger
Afternoon Break Break 17:30–18:30
Concert / Presentations 1 Session 3 18:30–20:00 Chair: Adam Łukawski
  • Virtual Voiɔɘƨ — Margarita Wenzel
  • Quantum Fields Sound Synthesis (QFSS) — Robert Lisek
  • Tessela: Navigating Electroacoustic Tessellations through Human–AI Co-Agency — Massimiliano Cerioni, Stefano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Ballerini & Stefano Gatti
Dinner Social 20:00–22:00

DAY 2 — Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Academic Panel 3 Session 4 9:30–11:00 Chair: Martin Zeilinger
  • Devising a Pharmacological Ritual for Decentralized Live Coding — Kosmas Giannoutakis
  • Empowering Decentralised Creativity: Integrating ORA into the Creative Process — Frances Liddell
  • Performative Transactions: Worlding Compositional Ecosystems — Adam Łukawski
Coffee Break Break 11:00–11:30
Keynote 3 Keynote 11:30–13:00 Primavera De Filippi Chair: Martin Zeilinger
Lunch Break 13:00–14:00
Academic Panel 4 Session 5 14:00–15:00 Chair: Adam Łukawski
  • Seizing the means of imagination: forging 'conTorchionist', a tool for nomadic practices in machine listening/learning — José Henrique Padovani & Vinícius César Oliveira
  • Wilding AI: Immersive Audio Research-Creation to Resist Narrative and Technological Closure — Alexandre Saunier, Maurice Jones, Beth Coleman & Debashis Sinha
Coffee Break Break 15:00–15:15
Keynote 4 Keynote 15:15–16:45 Artemi-Maria Gioti Chair: Adam Łukawski
Afternoon Break Break 16:45–17:30
Concert / Presentations 2 Session 6 17:30–19:00 Chair: Martin Zeilinger
  • Creative Feedback Loops: Musician-Informed Machine Learning in Performance — Umut Eldem
  • Human Receiver: Sonic Scores in Cyber-Physical System — Chonglian Yu
  • VLA + MLMLMLM — Lucy Strauss
Conference closing — last words 19:00
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