On August 28, ASC presents the opening event for our 2024 AI Symposium (October 29-30): An Evening of Music and AI Composition with George Lewis. This presentation will include a conversation with Lewis and author Adam Shatz.

Lewis is widely regarded as a pioneer in the creation of computer programs that improvise in concert with human musicians. He started composing with AI in the 1980s. His central areas of scholarship include the history and criticism of experimental music, computer music, interactive media, and improvisation, particularly in relation to race and gender. He will perform with the International Contemporary Ensemble at Carnegie Hall on January 30, 2025.

We invite you to join us for this exciting evening in the Segal Theatre at the Graduate Center from 6pm-8pm. This event is free and open to the public.

PC Maurice Weiss

George Lewis is an American composer, musicologist and trombonist. He is Professor of Music at Columbia University and Area Chair in Composition. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, as well as a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Further honors include the Doris Duke Artist Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015). He is the author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press), and is regarded as a pioneer in the creation of improvising computer programs.  Lewis holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania, among others. (https://music.columbia.edu/bios/george-e-lewis).

Adam Shatz is the U.S. Editor of the London Review of Books. He is the author of the acclaimed biography, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. Shatz is also an expert on jazz and is currently at work on a book about jazz.