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Artificial Intelligence and blockchain become increasingly intertwined with human creativity, leading to novel forms of expression that decentralise traditional notions of creative agency, authorship, ownership, and the ontology of the artwork. Posthuman Music investigates what happens to music, creativity, and artistic practice when we decenter the human, embrace technological agency, and think in terms of assemblages rather than works.

Combining philosophical perspectives from posthumanism and assemblage theory with artistic research on composition with these technologies, the project bridges the gap between theory and practice. It will generate new musical objects, develop new taxonomies for musical works that reflect human-AI collaboration, explore the creative potential of blockchain through smart contracts, and contribute to the ethical and aesthetic discourse surrounding posthuman creativity.

Posthuman Music is an ERC Advanced Grant led by Paulo de Assis and funded by the European Research Council under the EU Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 101200558).