Playing Music with Machines with Vincenzo Madaghiele

In this episode of The Music Talkshow, it's all about playing music with machines! How can we best interact and play music with machines? What does it mean for a machine to be a good bandmate? 

This, and so much more, is the topic of PhD candidate Vincenzo Madaghiele's research project at the UiO. On today's show, Vinzenco shares details of his recent artistic projects, his PhD research and insights into complex music tech topics such as mapping, machine-learning, algorithmic instrument design, software and more.

What is The Music Talkshow?

“Music Talkshow” is a musicology dissemination show by our local University of Oslo early career music and sound researchers – PhD’s and postdocs. How do we communicate our research to the “outside” world? How do we maintain our relevance to society as academics? People who write about music, but not the music itself? In other words, how does our work relate to the real world, and how does the real-world manifests in our work?

In this show, we tackle these unanswerable questions with a light-hearted approach: through informal conversations, sound and music examples, and perhaps some experiments. We hope to bridge the gap between those who wonder about music casually and those who do that professionally – from prospective students to lifelong music fans, fidelity nerds, and helpless cheesy romantics. By doing so, we will leave our own comfort zones to show the diversity of the academic community to showcase new voices and sounds, encourage participation, and take an alternative turn on the University.