The Nominees - AI Composition Competition 2024
The nominees for the AI Composition Competition 2024 Award have been announced by the expert jury!
The winner will be revealed at the BMiM Special 2024 on 5 June 2024 in Hotel Arena, Amsterdam.
The three nominees are:
Rene Ahoud
Manel Fornells
Nikolaï Clavier
Announcement of the winner
The nominees will be interviewed and the eventual winner will be announced during a special session at the Buma Music in Motion Special, 5 June 2024 in Hotel Arena, Amsterdam. You can order tickets and read more about the event on their event webpage.
The winner will win:
In addition to the recognition and fame through Private Kitchen, Buma Music-in-Motion, and associated newsletters and social media channels, Private Kitchen/MiMM is making a cash prize of 750 euros available to the winner of this competition.
Meet the Jury
Janne Spijkervet
composer, AI researcher TikTok
Janne Spijkervet is a music producer, DJ and artificial intelligence researcher who explores musical creativity with the latest advances in machine learning. She has collaborated with artists to create songs using artificial intelligence, from crazy hip-hop songs with 'De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig' to tearjerkers inspired by André Hazes, and a summer hit on Radio 538's "Maak 't of Kraak 't". At TikTok she works in the Speech, Audio and Music Intelligence R&D team, where she works to develop advanced technology to inspire creativity with music.
Ivo Witteveen
Composer, music producer and lecturer
Ivo Witteveen is an Amsterdam-based music composer, producer and educator, writing music for various media. As a partner and founder of MOST, he has worked on numerous (inter)national advertising jobs for clients like Mercedes, Sony, Adidas and Coca-Cola and won multiple awards.
In addition, he created music and sound design for various museum installations, VR motion rides and theme park attractions and has been responsible for the entire audio content of attractions like Corpus.
Ivo is a professor and course leader at the Composition & Music Production major (Prince Claus Conservatoire). Among his interests are creativity & design processes and entrepreneurship in the context of professional music.
Than van Nispen
Lecturer and media composer
Than van Nispen is both a biologist (he learned about Deep Ecology and Anthropocene extinctions during his MSc at the Utrecht University and acquired his ‘mad scientist’ mojo there) and a music composer for games and interaction, which he studied for at the HKU, giving him two other Master degrees (MMus, MA). Besides life and working on (solutions for)(interactive) compositions, he nowadays enjoys spending his parttime life as a lecturer and researcher at HKU School of Music and Technology where he currently works in fields as Interactive music for (Art) Games and Installations, Music as Biology, BioArt, inclusion, Artificial Intelligence and Sonic Interaction Design.
Organization
Private Kitchen, the English-language online platform for Dutch media composers produced by MiMM, organizes this competition in collaboration with Buma Music-in-Motion.
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