Theme: Questioning AI's Impact on Music

Language: Chinese

Speaker: Xu Han (Peking University)

Host: Jin Ping

Date&Time: Oct. 22, 2025 (Wed.) 17:00

Venue: Recital Hall 102, Academic Office Building (MUS) (2 International University Park Road, Longgang District, Shenzhen)

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【Abstract】

This lecture examines technological genealogies of algorithmic music and generative music. It contrasts Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for Music (involving a reduction of entropy) with uses of musical artificial intelligence (involving an increase of entropy). The lecture also offers critical reflections on current technologies and describes prospects for future development.

【About the Speaker】

Xu Han

Postdoctoral Fellow (Boya) at Peking University School of Arts

Doctor of Musical Arts from Cornell University

Xu Han is a composer, scholar, sound artist, instrument hacker, coder, and improviser who draws inspiration from Chinese Philosophy and hands-on aesthetics. Han is currently a postdoctoral fellow (Boya) at Peking University School of Arts. Han holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Cornell University.

Han's works have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra (UK), BBC Singers (UK), Wet Ink Ensemble (USA), Israeli Chamber Project (Israel), Composers Conference Ensemble (USA) with Conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni, Red Desert Ensemble (USA), Yarn/Wire (USA), etc.

Han has been supported by scholarships and funding from Peking University Boya post-doc Fellowship, Sage Fellowship of Graduate School at Cornell University (USA), Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award (USA), Darmstadt Summer Course (Germany), Shanghai Concert Hall (China), Sound Art Museum (China), Composers Conference – Fromm Foundation Composition Fellowship (USA), British Council (UK), LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme (UK), Cornell Council for the Arts (USA), RNCM School of Composition (UK), RNCM School of Wind, Brass and Percussion (UK), and was also the recipient of the British Composer Arnold Cooke Award (UK), and London Symphony Orchestra Bursary (UK).