Co-Creativity in Music, Sound, and AI

Bradley Butterworth is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Music Industry Program at the University of California, Riverside. He is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, audio engineer, music producer, and owner of Studio B Recording in Los Angeles, California. He received a BFA in Guitar Performance from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in Performance and Composition from the California Institute of the Arts.

Butterworth has composed, produced, mixed, and mastered projects spanning world music, jazz, chamber music, and experimental media. As a performer, he has appeared internationally at the Istanbul Jazz Festival (Turkey), Denizli Jazz Festival (Turkey), and Bansko Jazz Festival (Bulgaria), in addition to numerous performances throughout Los Angeles.

As an audio engineer, he has worked at venues including REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Troubadour, Avalon Hollywood, Brooklyn Bowl, The Wynn Hotel and Casino, and the California Institute of the Arts World Music Festival. He has also collaborated with studios and production companies including TV Tray Studio, Paramount Studios, and The Young Turks News Network.

Eric Lyon is a composer and audio researcher focused on high-density loudspeaker arrays, dynamic timbres, virtual drum machines, and performer-computer interactions. His audio signal processing software includes "FFTease" and "LyonPotpourri." He has authored two computer music books, Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd and Automated Sound Design. He has written extensively about the possibilities of multichannel spatial audio. In 2016–17, Lyon was guest editor for the Computer Music Journal on Volume 40(4) and 41(1) covering various aspects of High-Density Loudspeaker Arrays (HDLAs).

In 2015–16, Lyon architected both the Spatial Music Workshop and Cube Fest at Virginia Tech to support the work of other artists working with HDLAs. In 2025 he co-created the Spatial Audio Tidepool to provide technical instruction for creative uses of high-density loudspeaker arrays. Lyon's compositional work has been recognized with a ZKM Giga-Hertz prize, MUSLAB award, the League ISCM World Music Days competition, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Lyon teaches in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech and is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.

Ka Hei Cheng holds a PhD in Experimental Music & Digital Media from Louisiana State University. She previously studied at Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Bowling Green State University. Raised in Hong Kong, her multicultural background shapes a practice that blends artistic, technological, and philosophical approaches to sound. Her compositions and projects span concert music, interactive media, and research-driven work.

In 2020, she composed Nibiru for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and created promotional music for CNA Group. Her works have been presented internationally at venues such as NIME, ICAD, SEAMUS, NYCEMF, and ICMC. Cheng's broader research explores artificial intelligence, generative arts, digital fabrication, extended reality, and motion tracking. She has composed for laptop orchestras, including Who is the Leader?, commissioned by EdUHK. Her collaborative installation Shifting Datum was exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans. She contributed to Contingent Dream, presented at TEI 2023, and her Phantom of Utopia series was presented at LSU, SEAMUS, NIME, ICMC, and MOXsonic in 2024–2026.

Angel Poveda Yánez is a performance artist and researcher whose practice combines dance, ritual, light installation, data, moving image, and new digital technologies. Rooted in ceremonial life with the Yaqui nation and informed by fields such as astrophysics, robotics, computer science, and botany, their work explores altered corporeal awareness and speculative relations between art, science, and the otherworldly.

Angel's work has circulated across the US, Europe, Latin America, and Australia. Thanks to recently winning the Mellon Foundation fellowship for Speculative Play and Just Futurities, a Gluck Fellowship for Combining the Arts + Sciences, and the Gore Award at the CHOREOMUNDUS Film Festival, Angel has been immersing in the research for their upcoming book project, "Celestial Bodies," which focuses on dance and performance in outer space.

Gérard Assayag is an electronic musician and senior researcher at IRCAM. He is head and founder of the Music Representation research team, which explores Machine Musicianship: an ensemble of computational methods for modeling the structures and processes of music from a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary points of view. He has been head of the IRCAM research lab for several years. Assayag led the Music Representations team to international recognition through the production of flagship computer music software such as OpenMusic, AnteScofo, Orchidea, Omax, Somax, Djazz, Dyci2, and RAVE, as well as hundreds of scientific publications, PhD dissertations, and Master's projects with major impact on computer music research and creation.

Assayag has produced seminal work on Computer Assistance to Composition, Creative AI, and Machine Improvisation. He was recently awarded the prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant for his project REACH: Raising Co-creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship. Assayag has performed and invited dozens of world-class musicians to perform at the IMprotech Workshop-Festivals.

Marco Fiorini is an Italian musician, researcher, and improviser specializing in musical improvisation and human-machine interaction. Integrating his practice on the electric guitar, live electronics, and computer music design, his work explores new paradigms of spontaneous cyber-human cooperation. He is a doctoral candidate at Sorbonne Université and a researcher in the Music Representation team at IRCAM, where he contributes to the ERC REACH project and the co-development of Somax2, Somax for Live, and SoVo — a new hybrid system combining IRCAM's Somax2 and George Lewis's Voyager.

Holding degrees in Sound and Music Computing, Electronic Music, Jazz Guitar, and Software Engineering, Fiorini bridges deep technical expertise with high-level artistic practice. He collaborates extensively with internationally renowned musicians, including Joëlle Léandre, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Lehman, and Miles Okazaki. His performances and academic work have been featured at major global venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, ManiFeste, Klang, Improtech, and Mixtur. Recently, he was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship to pursue research at the University of Tokyo in 2026–2027.

Lara Morciano, after her musical studies in Italy and a Master's degree in composition with Franco Donatoni at the National Academy of Saint Cecilia, developed her artistic and research activities in France, notably at the Strasbourg Conservatory, IRCAM, Paris 8 University, and PSL Research University, where she completed a PhD SACRe in partnership with CNSMDP, ENS, and IRCAM. Her compositions have been performed at major festivals in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Oceania.

She has received commissions from the French Ministry of Culture, IRCAM–Centre Pompidou, the Ensemble intercontemporain, Radio France, the Venice Biennale, ZKM, GRAME, and other institutions. Winner of the 2008 Tremplin selection of the Ensemble intercontemporain and IRCAM, she received the Giga-Hertz Prize in 2012, the ICMA Audience Award at ICMC New York in 2019, and the Prix Navista in 2022.

Thierry Miroglio has performed solo concerts in more than forty countries, appearing at prestigious venues and festivals from Salzburg and the Berlin Philharmonie to New York, the Venice Biennale, Paris, São Paulo, Beijing, Mexico City, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Chicago. One of the few percussionists to sustain such a high-level international solo career, his repertoire includes more than 400 solo and concerto works. Numerous international radio and television stations have produced and broadcast his concerts, and he has recorded twenty CDs for international labels including Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, and Stradivarius.

Miroglio has collaborated closely with composers such as Cage, Berio, Saariaho, Grisey, Risset, Denisov, Donatoni, Unsuk Chin, Romitelli, Teruggi, Battier, Chagas, Barrière, Mochizuki, Fernández, Xu Yi, Morciano, Stroppa, Manoury, Jolas, Fedele, and Dufourt. Professor of Percussion at the D. Milhaud Conservatory in Paris, he gives masterclasses and lectures internationally.

José-Miguel Fernández studied music and composition at the University of Chile and at the LIPM in Buenos Aires. He later pursued composition studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and attended the IRCAM Composition Cursus. His work encompasses instrumental, electroacoustic, and mixed music compositions, performed in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

He was selected for the International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Bourges in 2000 and won the Grame-EOC International Composition Competition in Lyon in 2008 and the Giga-Hertz Award from ZKM/EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO in 2010. In 2014, he was selected by IRCAM for the Composer-in-Residence Program in Musical and Artistic Research. In 2021, he defended his PhD in music at Sorbonne University/IRCAM, and is currently conducting postdoctoral research within the RepMus team at IRCAM.

Mikhail Malt, with a dual scientific and musical background in engineering, composition, and conducting, began his musical career in Brazil as a flautist and conductor. He is the author of a thesis in musicology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales on the use of mathematical models in computer-assisted composition, as well as an HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches). He was an associate professor at Sorbonne Paris IV from 2006 to 2012, and a lecturer in computer music at the pedagogical department of IRCAM until 2021. He is currently in an artistic residency in the Musical Representations team at IRCAM and is a research associate at iReMus-Sorbonne in Paris, pursuing creative and research activities in generative music, creative systems, the epistemology of representation, and different listening strategies.

Jeff Albert is an Associate Professor and Co-P.I. of the Creative Music Technology Lab in the School of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His areas of research and creative practice include improvisation and interaction, jazz performance, performance paradigms for live computer music, and audio production. He has performed in concerts and festivals in the United States and throughout Europe, and contributed as a performer, producer, or engineer on more than sixty recordings, including the 2017 Grammy winner for Best Traditional Blues Album. Albert received his BM from Loyola University New Orleans and his MM from the University of New Orleans. In 2013, he became the first graduate of the PhD program in Experimental Music and Digital Media at Louisiana State University, where he was a founding member of the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOLs).

Constantin Basica is a Romanian composer whose work focuses on symbiotic interrelations between music, video, and performers. His compositions include works for solo instruments, ensembles, and orchestras, often incorporating electronics and visual elements. Performances of his compositions have taken place internationally, presented by distinguished ensembles and artists such as Ensemble Dal Niente, ELISION Ensemble, Distractfold, JACK Quartet, Spektral Quartet, line upon line, and Mocrep. His works have been featured in more than fifty major international events, including MATA Festival, Ars Electronica Festival, World New Music Days, George Enescu Festival, and ICMC.

Basica was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where he also earned his doctorate in composition. He holds a master's degree in multimedia composition from the Hamburg University of Music and Drama and two bachelor's degrees in composition and conducting from the National University of Music Bucharest. He is a lecturer in music at CCRMA, Stanford University.

Simona Fitcal is a digital media artist whose work offers a symbolic and expressive exploration of digital visual effects through experimental videos, multimedia performance, art installations, and interactive art. Her creations have been showcased at events and venues including Currents New Media Festival, the Murphy and Cadogan Awards Exhibition, Pierrot RE:imagined at Taube Atrium Theater, Radius Gallery, the International Computer Music Conference, and the InnerSound New Arts Festival. She often collaborates with musicians and programmers to expand her ideas into different dimensions. Her current artistic exploration involves the reuse of deconstructed display technologies in elaborate media installations.

Fitcal holds an MFA from the Art Practice program at Stanford University, a master's degree in digital media from the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany, and a bachelor's degree in mural arts from the National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania.

Prateek Verma is an AI researcher who has worked at Stanford University's Department of Electrical Engineering and the AI Lab. His work focuses on large language models, machine learning, and generative models for music and sound synthesis. His background is interdisciplinary, and he held a residency at Google X. Verma completed his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, graduating with a degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in signal processing. He subsequently earned a master's degree from CCRMA at Stanford University, where his graduate work centered on the intersection of music, audio, AI, and acoustics.

Alexandru Berceanu is a mixed-realities director and researcher conducting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of art and neuroscience. Beginning with his doctoral studies, his research has centered on aggressive and prosocial behavior, using drama and immersive environments as investigative tools to develop emotional regulation through gamified approaches and theatrical representation. His results are published in international journals, and his artistic work covers interactive-media installations, VR, immersive environments, and theater.

Berceanu is an associate professor in the Animation and Interaction Department at the National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale" in Bucharest, Romania, where he also teaches in the Community and Therapeutic Theatre master's program. He initiated the International Center for Research and Education in Innovative and Creative Technologies (CINETic), as well as its master's program in interactive technologies.

Cecilia Suhr is an award-winning intermedia composer-performer whose work integrates multi-instrumental performance, electroacoustic composition, and live-processed visual media into immersive audiovisual environments. Performing across violin, cello, piano, bamboo flute, and soprano voice, she constructs layered, real-time systems that synthesize live processing with visual art. Suhr's work functions as a critical inquiry into the human condition within a technologically mediated world, reflecting on how emerging systems — including AI — reconfigure the dimensions of affect, identity, and culture.

Her work has been presented at ICMC, NYCEMF, SEAMUS, New Music on the Bayou, ACMC, TENOR, SCI, CMS/ATMI, the MANTIS Festival, the Performing Media Festival, Splice Festival, MoXonic Festival, and Mise-En Festival, among others. Suhr's honors include the Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music, the BEA Best of Competition Award, and the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Award. She currently serves as Full Professor of Media Studies and Intermedia Performance at Miami University Regionals.

Jeff Albert is an Associate Professor and Co-P.I. of the Creative Music Technology Lab in the School of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His areas of research and creative practice include improvisation and interaction, jazz performance, performance paradigms for live computer music, and audio production. He has performed in concerts and festivals in the United States and throughout Europe, and contributed as a performer, producer, or engineer on more than sixty recordings, including the 2017 Grammy winner for Best Traditional Blues Album. Albert received his BM from Loyola University New Orleans and his MM from the University of New Orleans. In 2013, he became the first graduate of the PhD program in Experimental Music and Digital Media at Louisiana State University, where he was a founding member of the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOLs).

Anthony Cammarota is a guitarist, composer, and educator whose work bridges performance, technology, and creative research. Drawing on an eclectic stylistic background, he combines traditions of jazz, electroacoustic, and popular music forms. Passionate about redefining traditional instruments and performance modalities, he seeks to create inventive connections between technology and musical expression. His research explores interactive music systems, sound design, and algorithmic composition, with a focus on integrating software and alternative interfaces into live performance.

As an educator, Cammarota has served as chair of the guitar department at the True School of Music in Mumbai, India, and as adjunct faculty at the University of Central Missouri. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds an MA from the University of Central Missouri, a BMus from Cornish College of the Arts, and is an alumnus of the Orange County High School of the Arts.