Abstract
In this talk Professor Craig Vear will discuss his ERC-Funded Digital Score project (2021-26). He will outline the theoretical proposition and his approach to investigating the transformation of creativity and musicianship through digital score practices. As a focus of this talk he will discuss the recent findings from a cross-sector research project investigating the role of AI and robotics on extending the creativity of disabled musicians within an inclusive ensemble.
Bio
Craig Vear is Professor of Music and Computer Science at the University of Nottingham split between music and the mixed reality lab. His research is naturally hybrid as he draws together the fields of music, digital performance, creative technologies, Artificial Intelligence, creativity, gaming, mixed reality and robotics. He has been engaged in practice-based research with emerging technologies for nearly three decades, and was editor for The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research, published in 2022. His recent monograph The Digital Score: creativity, musicianship and innovation, was published by Routledge in 2019, and he is Series Editor of Springer¡¯s Cultural Computing Series. In 2021 he was awarded a €2Million ERC Consolidator Grant to continue to develop his Digital Score research https://digiscore.github.io/