Free and open to the public!
Social Time: ~7:15PM PST / Presentation begins: 7:30PM PST
Presenter: Keith Lay
Title : Optimism for AI-Assisted Music Composition” is a recent post to Keith's substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/klistener/p/why-im-optimistic-about-ai-assisted?r=du3s1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I hope everyone gets a chance to read it before joining the zoom to give us plenty of time to discuss and debate. I hope this is the first of a series of special presentations concerning how AI is influencing music composition.
Bio: Raised in rural Ohio, Keith Lay acquired a Master's in Music Composition from the University of Akron under David S. Bernstein and, later, a Master’s in Educational Media Design from Full Sail University. In addition, Mr. Lay has earned certifications to teach Deep Listening® under Pauline Oliveros at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Coherence Advantage training from the HeartMath Institute.
Keith left a commercial music production career to join Full Sail University in Florida as a Synclavier expert in 1990 where he thrived 30 years as an educator and leader. Gramophone Magazine called his pean to the environment, “Earth Caoine,” recorded by Richard Stoltzman, “unapologetically emotional.” Hailed as "a composer to watch for" by the New York Times for his internationally award-winning violin concerto and called "Orlando's most inventive composer" by the Orlando Weekly, Lay feels that his role as an artist is to give create life-affirming music experiences that connect hearts, minds, bodies and spirit to our nature: inner- and outer-.
At home with technology, Keith developed a massively-multiplayer, outdoor concert-environment he calls Distance Music using radio telemetry, geometry, and the speed of sound to create music that reconstructs itself differently at every listener's location. Current projects include “Tree-Voice” a real-time data musical sonification of living forests.