The 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2025) will take place at the KAIST campus in Daejeon, Korea, from September 21 to 25, 2025. ISMIR is the largest research venue for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and industries in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR)-an interdisciplinary area focused on processing, analyzing, indexing, organizing, and accessing music-related data.
Jambot, a 2025 MIDI Innovation Award finalist in the installation category will be featured in a performance.
M5: The JAM_BOT: An Insight Into An AI-Human Co-Created Musical Improvisation
This show is a demonstration of the JAM_BOT, a real-time system for collaborative free improvisation with music language models that was developed as part of a collaboration between MIT Media Lab researchers and GRAMMY-winning visiting artist Jordan Rudess. The JAM_BOT accompanies the improvisation of live performers onstage using optimized Transformer-based Music Language Models. It was first demonstrated publicly during a sold-out performance held at the MIT Media Lab on September 21, 2024. This ISMIR 2025 show intends to reproduce segments of the original show to demonstrate the potential of the system to the ISMIR scientific community.
The ISMIR performance take place at the ISMIR banquet on September 24 at 7:30 PM Korean time and will feature Yanghee Do, who is a composer and arranger from Korea.