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Dr Anna Xambó will be giving a keynote on Friday 18 September 11:00-12:00 on “Inventions for Machines: Live-Coded Dreams” at the 7th Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC 2026), Musikinstrumenten-Museum (Musical Instrument Museum), Berlin, Germany.
Chaired by Alberto de Campo, this performance-keynote will present the following enquiry:
What can live coding, combined with machine listening and creative AI, reveal about situated practices of sound, place, and memory? Inspired by Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange’s Inventions for Radio: The Dreams, this improvised sound-collage unfolds as an open-ended exploration of live soundscaping. Drawing on archival recordings and site-specific environmental sounds from the Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments (Musikinstrumenten-Museum), the performance creates evolving sonic dialogues between past and present, human craft and machine perception. At a moment when AI’s role in musical practice is widely debated, this performance-keynote investigates environment, place, and embodied knowledge as vital human dimensions of creativity—ones algorithms may reflect, adapt to, or learn from, but cannot fully inhabit.
For more info about the conference visit: https://aimc2026.org