Matthias Jung

• Music and Artificial Intelligence
• Performative co-creation and human-computer-interaction
• Participatory music creation and audience studies

Head of Content at Most Wanted: Music conference in Berlin (2016-2020)

Popular music specialist at Landesmusicakademie Berlin (2011-2020)

Trainer, curator, cultural program planner at Goethe-Institut (2002-2020)

Amplified connections - exploring performative co-creation and distributed creativity in the context of accessible music creation technologies (PhD project started in September 2020)

In the past years we have seen considerable advances within Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and its application to the field of music. While plenty of research is directed towards information retrieval and generative approaches, fewer studies focus on interactive applications connected to live audiences.

The main goal of the project will be to investigate the role of and interaction with autonomous technology with a special focus on the accessibility these technologies bring towards audiences. This includes the following questions: What are the functions and design strategies for participatory performance technologies and in what ways can these be modelled? How is autonomous technology altering the relational qualities between human, non-human performers and audiences? What role does personalised media play within these settings? How do visions of future performance technology voiced by performers, audiences and developing entities influence the technological evolvement?

Theoretical foundations for approaching these questions involve machine learning, popular music studies, human-computer interaction and design studies, phenomenology and embodied cognition, social informatics and behaviour studies. The project intents to use both experimental and qualitative methods that are inspired by studies on human and artificial creativity, audience studies and design studies. More specifically, after categorising respective concepts and technologies, a set of cases will be selected and studied involving the perspectives of expert performers, developers and audiences. The study then plans to test on developed ML approaches for interactive performance contexts within live performance settings.

In conclusion, the project wants to contribute to the question, how to make the best use of the available interactive technologies to meaningfully connect human and artificial performers for offering novel participatory experiences along the performer-listener spectrum.

Articles:

Jung, M. and Kummen, V. 2024 (book will be published March 5, 2024). “Hacking the Concert Experience: Exploring Co-Creative Audience Interaction at a Chiptune Live Performance” in Güllo, J.-O. and Hepworth-Sawyer, R. and Paterson, J. and Toulson, R.: Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003118817-8

Jung, M. and Clester, I. 2023 (published). "Hack the Show: Design and Analysis of Three Interaction Modes for Audience Participation" in Buffa, M. and Alexandraki, Ch. and Lebrun, J. and Roberts, Ch. (eds.): Fostering Creativity through Web Audio. Journal of the Engineering Society (Special Issue). https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2022.0111

Jung, M. 2023 (published). "Intelligent Music Performance Systems: Towards a Design Framework" in Studia Musicologica Norvegica. Universitetsforlaget. Vol.49, Iss.1: 28-44. https://doi.org/10.18261/smn.49.1.3

Jung, M. 2023 (published). "Beyond Mutation: How Can We Acknowledge Symbiogenesis in Evolutionary Music Coding?". The International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity. Brighton.https://aimc2023.pubpub.org/pub/if7rl6o5

Jung, Matthias und Seedorf, Marten (2018): Klanglabor Klassenzimmer - article on electronic music education and new media learning - link to the article in German

Jung, Matthias (2012): Baustelle Popmusik, Neue Musik Zeitung - article on popmusic funding - link to the article in German

Thesis projects:

Jung, Matthias (2011): Evaluation of a room simulation model on the basis of array measurements, Master thesis at Stuttgart Media University

Jung, Matthias (2007): Assymmetrical rhythmic structures in the music of the Don Ellis Orchestra (1966/67), Bachelor thesis at University Paderborn

Interviews:

Philtrat Magazin Köln (2021): "Zukunftsmusik" - interviewed by Rebecca Mackensen - link to the interview in German

CCB Magazine (2018): "This isn't just about music..." - interviewed by Jens Thomas - link to the interview in English

Get in touch with the Popular Music Research Unit at UiA's Faculty of Fine Arts

I'm part of the following research groups which both accept partnership proposals:

Popular Music Studies 

Electronic Music