Title：Embracing AI Technology in Music Performance
Date：2024/12/13 14:20-15:30
Location：CSIE R102
Speakers: Prof. Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun, Purdue University
Host: Prof. Chia-Lin Yang
Abstract:
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence has demonstrated impressive progress in music composition and recording engineering areas. However, its application in music performance and education remains relatively limited. This session will introduce how AI can be beneficial to improve individual practice and performance for string professionals and students, offering insights into the integrated technologies involved.
AI technology can be incorporated to create supportive tools for music performers. With leveraging natural language processing and audio analysis techniques, AI can analyze a musician's sound and compare it to digitized music scores to detect deviations in intonation, rhythm, and dynamics. Computer vision can analyze video footage of performers against a database of correctly postured samples, providing recommendations to enhance performance and mitigate the risk of injuries. The requisite technologies for this integration encompass score digitization and processing, audio input measurement and comparison to score, dynamic estimation, and tempo/downbeat estimation, posture detection for hands and body, and bow/instruments detection. The purpose of technological development is to solve those two research questions. (1) When can AI technology provide measurable benefits to professional musicians' practice and performance? (2) What factors would affect future musicians' acceptance of AI technology in their work?
Biography:
Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun, clinical associate professor of music at Purdue University, is active as a soloist, chamber musician, musical scholar and clinician. Her dynamic career includes receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "Artificial Intelligence Technology for Future Music Performers."
She received the Doctor of Music in cello performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music at Bloomington, where she studied with the world-famous cellist Janos Starker. She also has the Performer Diploma from the same school. She received master’s and bachelor’s degrees in cello performance from Seoul National University.