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Chicago Creative Machines: Bryan Pardo’s Interactive Audio Lab
Bryan Pardo’s Interactive Audio Lab invents new tools to find, label, separate, modify, and generate sound. Prof. Pardo will discuss several projects illustrative of the work in the lab:
VampNet: VampNet is fast enough for interactive performance and can be prompted by music audio prompts, making it well suited for creating loops and variational accompaniment.
Text2FX: Audio effects (e.g., equalization, reverberation, compression) are a cornerstone of modern audio production but are challenging for non-technical musicians, podcasters and sound artists. Natural language can serve as a more intuitive and accessible way to navigate the complex parameter spaces of audio effects.
AI-tribution: Today, "inspiration" has been automated by generative music models. The black box nature of these models obscures the identity of the works that influence their creative output. As a result, users may inadvertently appropriate, misuse, or copy existing artists' works. With AI-tribution, we establish a methodology to systematically identify similar pieces of music audio in a manner that is useful for understanding training data attribution.
