This year's Worshipful Company of Musicians Annual Lecture is jointly hosted by Bayes Business School and School of Communication & Creativity.
The lecture will be delivered by Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology and Music at University College London on "Music's Entanglement in Digital Media and AI".
In this 45-minute talk Georgina will reflect on her research as an anthropologist on how music has become entangled in digital media and is increasingly caught up in developments in artificial intelligence. The focus will be on the profound changes to the very nature of musical experience and the commercial logics and technological dependencies that follow from these changes. The message is that we should become more conscious of the transformation of music.
About the speaker
Georgina Born is Professor of Anthropology and Music in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. From 2010-21 she was Professor of Music and Anthropology in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and from 2006-10 was Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music at the University of Cambridge.
Earlier she had a professional life as a musician in experimental rock, jazz and improvised music. She has held visiting professorships as follows: Bloch Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Music (2014); Schulich Distinguished Visiting Professor in Music, McGill University (2015); Visiting Professor jointly in the Schools of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine (2019-20, 2023-24); Professor II at the University of Oslo, Department of Musicology (2014-19); Visiting Professor, Aarhus University, School of Communication and Culture (2017); Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (2018-19); and Distinguished Global Scholar, Department of Music, Princeton University (2020-22).
She was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association in 2007, Fellowship of the British Academy in 2014 and an OBE ‘for services to anthropology, musicology and higher education’ in 2016.
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