The AI Music Problem: Book Launch with Local Author Christopher White

Will Generative AI put musicians out of business? Or will music be immune to AI's technological advances? In this talk, Chris White explores key arguments from his new book, The AI Music Problem, examining the technical, social, commercial, and expressive challenges that make music an unusually difficult domain for AI. The presentation weaves through the broader Music AI ecosystem—from startup culture and the limitations of digitizing scores and audio to the intricacies of composition and music’s deep ties to human emotion and experience. While some aspects of music are markedly susceptible to AI, White ultimately argues that music remains uniquely resistant to the full force of this transformative technology.

Christopher W. White is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He lives in Sunderland with his family.

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