We’re producing a special issue of the A Bit of CS4FN mini-magazine for primary aged children (around ages 8 to 12) which is all about how AI can help analyse music, and how it has been used in understanding music from Ghana (played with a seperewa which is a plucked string instrument a little like a cross between a harp and a guitar) and in preserving and recreating music from fifteenth century Korea.
About the project: Music and AI
In the Autumn last year the EPSRC awarded Queen Mary University of London some funding for small projects designed to support the ‘AI Pipeline’: helping young people find out more about how AI might help them in their future careers (and to consider AI and other tech careers). Our project was chosen for funding.
Our interdisciplinary small project looks at the ways musicians and computer scientists (which are sometimes the same people!) use AI. A lot of ‘Music Information Retrieval’ (MIR) has focused on music from western countries and our project includes a flavour of how musicians and computer scientists have also been widening this to include non-Western music.
About the issue (and get a print copy)
Because the money was shared among several projects we’re only able to print a limited number (1,000 copies) of this issue of the magazine. Normally we print around 18,000 issues of A Bit of CS4FN and around 23,000 issues of the full-size (13+) CS4FN magazine.
We’ll be sending ONE copy to our subscribing UK schools / librarians / home educators (prioritising UK state schools if subscribers exceed our print run). For future issues we’ll send as many as you request, while stocks last.
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We’re gradually adding online copies of the articles to the issue’s page on the CS4FN website and, once available, we’ll add a free PDF for everyone to download.
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