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If Guelph is the ignition switch for jazz in Southern Ontario, the Off Festival de Jazz de Montréal (OFJM) is its counterpart for the Montreal region. Both events have long histories, the OFJM stretching back to Y2K, when local musicians banded together to call out the city’s mammoth jazz festival for its cavalier attitude toward them. Off Festival On Again Having outgrown that original purpose, the event has carved its own niche over time, now casting itself as a promoter of local talent, of which the city has no short supply. In its upcoming 24th edition, running from Oct. 5…

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In 2019, the film composer Lucas Cantor completed Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”), dating from 1822, using artificial intelligence. Last year, “Beethoven X –  The AI ​​Project,” piloted by a group of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, created Beethoven’s Symphony No. 10 from fragmentary sketches left by the composer, which had been partially assembled by Barry Cooper in 1988. youtu.be/RESb0QVkLcM Developments in artificial intelligence in recent years have greatly advanced the practice of musical composition by artificial intelligence. The fledgling company Aiva Technologies in 2019 introduced the first platform for musical composition by AI in a…

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The 17th  edition of the immersive digital music festival Akousma was held from October 11 to 15 in Montreal with great success and an audience that was obviously eager to come and experience it all! The 10th  program by artistic director Louis Dufort kicked off with a preliminary evening at the Satosphere of the Société des arts technologiques, at the invitation of MTL Connect (Digital Spring). With the premiere of an acousmatic work by Simon Chioini, a music video by the duo GGROUNDD (commissioned by Akousma) and a presentation of an audiovisual work by Myriam Bleau and Sandrine Deumier (recently…

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