Machines Making Music?

Date(s): Friday, December 5, 2025
Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Venue: Downtown Branch of AADL
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In 1842, Lady Ada Lovelace speculated that, in the future, analyzing machines would “compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity.” In 2025, AI is making music, and…it’s going. It’s up to you to decide how successfully. We’ll talk about machine learning basics and how they can be applied to music, listen to examples of the latest AI-generated music, and look at independent artists creating their own original machine learning based work.

Molly Jones is an improviser, composer, and data engineer. Her tools include saxophones, flutes, found sounds, and machine learning models, and she is the founder of Chicago Creative Machines, an initiative promoting the original and ethical use of machine learning in the creation of art. Molly is a PhD student at the University of Michigan pursuing research in creative audio computation.

For teens & adults. Held in Fourth Floor Program Room.

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