New, Generative AI Transforms Poetry into Music
October 6, 2023
Researchers from the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute have helped create a text-to-music diffusion model for human-machine creativity.
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UC San Diego Computer Music Pioneer Wins Silver Lion Prize
September 11, 2023
The 128-year-old European cultural institution La Biennale di Venezia has announced that UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute Composer-in-Residence Miller Puckette has won the Silver Lion award for enabling “the creation of numerous masterworks during recent decades in the history of music.”
Immersive Springtime Festival Takes Music Students Far Beyond Concert Hall
April 7, 2016
Immersive Springtime Festival Takes Music Students Far Beyond Concert Hall Pianist and music graduate student Xavier Beteta, who will perform at this year’s Springfest In a departure from the traditional concert hall experience, pianist and music graduate student Todd Moellenberg will perform onstage to empty seats in the Conrad Prebys…
Capturing Creativity with Computation for Music AI
February 21, 2024
We know it when we see it, but what is creativity and can it be quantified? In a paper that guides future AI development, a team from UC San Diego’s Jacob School of Engineering, Department of Music and Qualcomm Institute has discovered answers in the context of musical collaboration.
Machine Learning Enhances Non-verbal Communication in Online Classrooms
June 21, 2021
Prompted by the challenge of teaching music via Zoom during the pandemic, researchers use eye tracking, gaze estimation and machine learning to improve non-verbal communication in virtual classrooms.
UC San Diego Composer Lei Liang Featured in Portrait Concert in New York City
November 17, 2016
…leading composers of new music. Liang’s concert, which features fellow UC San Diego Department of Music faculty members Steven Schick (conductor) and Mark Dresser (contrabass), includes the world premiere of “Lakescape V,” a Miller Theatre co-commission. Also on the program: the New York premiere of “Luminous” (2014), Ascension (2008) and…
UC San Diego Celebrates Roger Reynolds’ 80th Birthday
January 29, 2015
…founded the Center for Music Experiment at UC San Diego in 1971. The center evolved into the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts. UC San Diego Celebrates Roger Reynolds’ 80th Birthday Pulitzer Prize-winning composer will be honored with a concert, symposium and exhibit In 1965, an ambitious young…
Gun Violence Focus of Upcoming UC San Diego Chamber Opera Project
January 21, 2016
…America. The Department of Music faculty members were among 46 winners out of a pool of 2,500 artist applicants who proposed bold, innovative and genre-stretching projects in the areas of Literature, Performing Arts and Emerging Fields. Susan Narucki “I’m truly honored that Inheritance has been chosen from many projects worthy…
Gert Lanckriet Recognized by MIT Technology Review as One of World’s Top Young Innovators
August 23, 2011
University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Professor Gert Lanckriet has been recognized by MIT Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top young innovators for 2011.
Giving Students a Place to Prep for Tomorrow’s Virtual (Reality) Economy
May 11, 2017
…Tomorrow’s Virtual (Reality) Economy Computer science department opens high-tech teaching lab for undergraduates The laboratory looks like a cross between a classroom and a tech pavilion at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There are virtual-reality headsets everywhere, and large flat screen 3D displays. College students work at…
