Program
FRIDAY, April 10
Alumni House, 3604 O St NW, Washington, DC
8:30
Continental Breakfast / Registration
9:00
Event opener
9:30
Production, Platforms, and Mediated Agency
Chair: Mary Madden (Georgetown University)
“Who (All) Made This? Incorporating Tool-Use into Music Authorship”
Brandon Woo Snyder — University of California, Irvine
“SUNO, AI, and the Continuing Inevitable Decline of America’s Production Infrastructure: Redefining Music, Authorship, Collaboration and the Creative Potential of Future Generations”
Scott LeGere — Augsburg University
“Musical Agency and Intention in the Age of AI: The Role of the Music Producer”
Atticus Reynolds — University of California, Irvine
Nate Schwartz — Independent musician/composer/researcher
11:15
Whose Song Is It Anyway? Ownership in the Age of AI
Chairs: Kristelia Garcia and Isabella Zaidle (Georgetown Law Center)
Britt Lovejoy (lead counsel for Udio)
Romel Murphy (manager and lawyer for Xania Monet)
Amy Isbell (General Counsel at Universal)
Jalyce Mangum (U.S. Copyright Office)
12:45
Lunch Break / Music Fair
2:00
What Does AI Sound Like?
Chair: Benjamin J. Harbert (Georgetown University)
CJ Carr (Dadabots)
Benoit Carré (SKYGGE, Flow Machines)
3:45
Critical Perspectives on Music, AI, and Copyright Policy
Chair: Derek Baron (Georgetown University)
Eric Drott (University of Texas at Austin)
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa (George Mason University)
Matthew Blackmar (Indiana University Bloomington)
5:15
Keynote Talk
Jenny Toomey in conversation with Dessa
6:15
End of Day Reception
Featuring a live performance of the Illiac Suite for string quartet (1957), composed by Lejaren Hiller in collaboration with Leonard Isaacson, the first score generated by a computer.
SATURDAY, April 11
Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N St NW, Washington, DC
9:00
Continental Breakfast / Registration
9:30
AI, Heritage, and Ethical Futures
Chair: Benjamin J. Harbert (Georgetown University)
“Algorithmic Aesthetics and Sonic Labour: AI, Cinema Composition, and Live Generativity in India’s Music Ecologies”
Mayankdutt Kaushik — Jawaharlal Nehru University
Seerat Kaur Minhas
“Artists as Policy Makers: Activism and the No FAKES Act”
Wayna — Recording Artist; National Trustee, Recording Academy
Carlos Chirinos-Espin — NYU Steinhardt
“Access or Extraction?: Intellectual Property and AI Training in Cultural Heritage Archives”
Andrea Decker — American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
11:15
Sustainability, Dignity, and Labor in the Age of AI
Chair: Jay Hammond (Georgetown University)
Liz Pelly (independent journalist, New York University)
Max Alper (musician and independent educator)
Joey LaNeve DeFrancesco (United Musicians and Allied Workers)