Speaker: Gérard Assayag (France)、Elaine Chew (UK) 、Thierry Miroglio (France)
Title: Boulez Reloaded, Reinventing the musical world of Pierre Boulez through interpretation and improvisation at the nexus of AI, Music and Health
Time: 2025/9/26（Friday）10:40 - 12:10
Location: Music Education Theater, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music
Gérard Assayag (France) Elaine Chew (UK) Thierry Miroglio (France)
Abstract: Conceived in homage to Pierre Boulez on his centennial celebrated worldwide, "Boulez Reloaded" is a research and creation initiative bringing together two important European research projects. In COSMOS, AI enables the shift towards precision music medicine, advancing music’s diagnostic potential, facilitated by wearable technologies and real-time monitoring of musician’s physiological signals. In REACH, Human-AI live cocreation systems engage their digital listening, learning and generative skills into rich and versatile musical dialog trained on a chosen corpus of music. By committing these technologies to a collective act along with the human musicians, a variety of new possible readings of Boulez’ works such as the Piano Sonatas or Improvisations sur Mallarmé emerge, offering a way of bringing works and creators to life again beyond their finitude, a new means of in-depth musicological knowledge, and a resolute aesthetic and ethical approach to AI, allowing it to dedicate itself to human creativity and health.
In this musician-AI dialog, the music that Boulez loved, analyzed and conducted can slip in, notably Maurice Ravel whose 150th birthday we are also celebrating this year, extending the idea of re-creation to that of a meta-level dialogue of musics and influences. This master-class will detail the research and creation project, explain the analysis and musical choices guiding the « reloading » process, demonstrate the AI technologies, illustrating them through musical performances in which participants will be able to join with their own instruments.