Thanks to the strong collaboration of all of the universities part of the Unite! [1] alliance, a special prize has been organized to encourage Unite! students to compete in these two parallel hackathons, which will take place within the Sónar AI and music S+T+ARTS Festival [2]. Unite! students from outside Barcelona, can participate remotely in the hackathons which will take place on 23 October, 12.00-20.00 CET and on 24 October, 8:00-12:00 CET for on-site participants. For online participants it will be open 24 hours. The Festival will then take place on 27-28 October.
The prize for the winners of the hackathon, will be a ticket to the AI and Music festival along with travel and accommodation to Barcelona, which will be covered by the students’ home institution.
This is an opportunity for all students to work together with students from the other Unite! partner universities and share and exchange knowledge, experiences, ideas and inspiration regarding the specific co-defined challenges. Students can apply [3] with already established groups of participants or individually since online support will be provided to connect teams and programmers within Unite! universities.
Participation requirements:
EduHack: The AI & Music Educational Hack will focus on the creation of opportunities for new approaches to musical education with the contribution of AI tools and techniques developed for composition, improvisation, autonomous intelligent musical performance, inspiration, suggestion of motifs, melodies… aiming at helping creators develop their own work.
Goals:
Participants: Students, artists, code developers, experts in teaching and learning taking a STEAM-STARTS approach, musicians and musical pedagogues and experts in AI deployment and visualization, AI engineers and instructional designers.
Skills asked for: coding, music, design, AI techniques, entrepreneurial mindset, etc.
Available support:
Two types of mentors will be available to assist the participants during the event:
The Festival
For the first time in Barcelona, Sónar will organize the AI and Music Festival [2], focused on the application of and challenges surrounding the use of Artificial Intelligence in musical creation. The festival is organized by Sónar, the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), béteve and the European Commission as part of the S+T+ARTS initiative. The festival will take on a hybrid format, with live performances, in-situ programming and online exclusives, designed and created specifically to engage with digital audiences.
Unite! really encourages all its' students to join this challenge so that you can come to Barcelona and meet your peers!
Links
[1] https://www.unite-university.eu/
[2] https://www.starts.eu/agenda/aimusic-festival-sonar-cccb/detail/
[3] https://hackaiandmusicfestival.github.io/