I’ll be at #ICLR2025 this week presenting our work on curating large datasets for symbolic music modelling. Excited to chat about generative music, audio language models, and audio/speech LLMs (DMs open!). 📄 Paper: https://t.co/I4nGmm8FR8 🔗 Dataset: https://t.co/O7UN6StuoB 🗓️

Interesting article in nature on creativity+ai featuring some work I did with my supervisor on piano generation

✨ Very overdue update: I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in CS at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Fall 2026. I will be recruiting PhD students!! Please help me spread the word! [Thread] 1/n

🚨🚨🚨So excited to have Aria-Duet accepted to Neurips 2025 Creative AI Track, see us in San Diego!! This has really been the most fun I've had doing research in a long time!! Fun work with @loubbrad and @BlancheMinerva , supported by @AiEleuther. Check it out!!

My colleague @AlexanderSpangh and I are trying to film a demo for our piano autopilot on a modern Disklavier. If you're in London or LA and have access to one (or know someone who does), please DM me! #robotjazz

Small teaser for our piano generative model -- enabling real time human-AI co-creation 🎹✨

What are the most impactful areas to work in in open science research? Where is a lack of openness holding back science? Where do we as a community need to go? Come find out what's on my wishlist for 2027 on Monday April 28th, Hall 4 #5 at 9:10 am.

Great panel on self improving foundation models w/o human supervision at #ICLR2025 Bengio - 'I find the name of this workshop very concerning' Audience - *laughs nervously*

Also looking forward to discussing what new applications might be unlocked with the dataset we're releasing (~100k hours of MIDI)!

Exciting news! 🎉 AIM members are heading to @iclr_conf in Singapore to present their excellent work on symbolic music modeling and generation. Check out our blog for details and paper highlights: https://t.co/OkYQsbxonh #ICLR2025

Created this t-SNE plot visualizing unsupervised embeddings of compositions by different classical composers. Interesting to see how the model clusters the history of classical (piano) music without any explicit exposure to composers, text labels, or audio.

I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century". The "compressed 21st century" comes from Dario's "Machine of Loving Grace" and if you haven’t read it, you probably

Today I was sent the following cool demo: Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave

Hacked together a real-time piano continuation demo this weekend. Piano sound = real-time input. Electric piano sound = real-time (ai) continuation streamed from my server over the LAN. Gotta get this hooked up to an acoustic self-playing piano, for both input/output, next week!

Some AI jazz piano doodling conditioned on the 'fly me to the moon' theme. Excited to hear generations like this played in real-time on a grand piano!

Reports of the death of pre-training are greatly exaggerated. For new modalities, the journey has just begun.

Loving this crazy, expressive #AI piano interpretation of Misty. This one was so good I had to triple check it against the recording I took the prompt from.

Still a long way to go before it's truly convincing, but watching the model slowly learn hierarchical musical structure throughout the training process has been fascinating.

Another #AI jazz continuation using the latest checkpoint from my current training run. Can you tell at what point the prompt ends?

The first twenty seconds (the prompt) is taken from this Bill Evans recording