NSF Grants $1.8 Million to Build Foundation for New Music ProductionEcosystem: Researchers from the University of Rochester and NorthwesternUniversity Collaborate

A team of researchers from the University of Rochester and Northwestern University are collaborating to leverage and better utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) to empower musicians to produce and disseminate their art more effectively and independently.

The project, titled “Toward an Ecosystem of Artificial-intelligence-powered Music Production” (TEAMuP), proposes to achieve these goals by working in the following complementary areas:

Creating an open-access framework enabling musicians and AI researchers to collaborate in developing new music production solutions, which will run on Audacity (an open-source and free DAW that more than two million people have used to date).

Understanding both advances and challenges that may arise from using AI for music production.

Providing new learning opportunities to empower current and future musicians to utilize technology better.

Receiving a $1.8M grant award from the National Science Foundation Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program, TEAMuP builds on work from across the fields of music, audio engineering, ethics, and education.

Full press release can be found online. Select interviews and photos available upon request.

TEAMuP Principal Investigators:

The University of Rochester

Raffaella Borasi, Warner School of Education

Rachel Roberts, Eastman School of Music, Institute for Music Leadership

Zhiyao Duan, Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Jonathan Herington, School of Arts & Sciences

Northwestern University

Bryan Pardo, McCormick School of Engineering