C4DM researchers participate at The Second International Conference in AI Music Studies (AIMS 2026), taking place in the Department of Music, University of Nottingham, UK, from Monday 30th March to Wednesday 1st April, 2026.
AIMS is a new interdisciplinary conference bringing into conversation scholars working in music computing, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, science and technology studies, philosophy, ethics, economics, feminist and posthumanist studies to help define and develop, or even challenge the need for, a discipline of AI music studies.
AIMS 2026 explores the prospects, challenges and new methodologies required for the study of AI music within the Humanities and Social Sciences with a focus on inside knowledge.
The following papers from C4DM members are presented:
- CMI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Music Instruction Following (poster) by Yinghao Ma, Siyou Li, Juntao Yu, Emmanouil Benetos, and Akira Maezaw
- Is 'depth' Real? Sample-based music as a challenge to semantically-mediated GenAI (poster) by Ashley Noel-Hirst, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Charalampos Saitis
- Of Ghosts and Slop: is there 'an' AI Music Aesthetic? (talk) by Andrew McPherson and Teresa Pelinski
- Beyond Ethics, for a Critical Interdisciplinary AI Music Pedagogy (talk) Teresa Pelinski and Georgina Born
- Negotiating Audio Representations: Timbre and the Politics of Artificial Creativity, a panel moderated by Charalampos Saitis with Bob L. Sturm, Andrew McPherson, Courtney N. Reed, Artemi-Maria Gioti, and Ashley Noel-Hirst
Abstracts are available here.