Name
Overview of the MUSICACOUSTICA-HANGZHOU 2025 ELECTROACOUSTICMUSIC COMPOSITION COMPETITION
Date & Time
Thursday, July 30, 2026, 11:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Description
The 2025 Hangzhou International Electronic Music Festival established a pioneering framework for artistic-technological integration through its systematic incorporation of artificial intelligence composition, ethnic acoustic redesign, and real-time human-computer interaction.This convergence generated significant interdisciplinary implications beyond musical creation, stimulating substantive discourse across philosophical, aesthetic, and cognitive domains. The festival's innovative achievements primarily manifested through three interconnected domains: human-machine collaborative creation exemplified by systems enabling real-time musical dialogue between artificial intelligence and performers, multimodal interaction technology facilitating seamless sensory conversion between auditory and visual media through gesture recognition, and comprehensive digital reconstruction of traditional cultural heritage including algorithmic reinterpretations of historical musical forms.These implementations demonstrated technology's evolving role from instrumental application to active creative partnership, thereby validating the event's practice-oriented research methodology that integrated technical demonstrations, artistic production, and theoretical discussion into a cohesive technology-creation-theory framework.Empirical observations revealed artificial intelligence's capacity to address fundamental pedagogical challenges in music education by transforming abstract concepts into tangible experiences through multisensory interaction, achieving unprecedented knowledge visualization, auditory demonstration, and emotional contextualization.The festival's legacy suggests three transformative developmental pathways: the paradigm shift from human-centric creation to human-machine co-creation, the establishment of innovative frameworks for interdisciplinary music education that harmonize traditional and contemporary practices while bridging technological and humanistic disciplines through open-source educational resources forming sustainable performance-learning-research ecosystems, and the democratization of musical creativity through technological accessibility while advancing aesthetic education through systematic AI integration across compositional, performative, and musicological domains.This landmark event provides both practical demonstration and theoretical direction for electronic music innovation, particularly illuminating how technological empowerment and cultural heritage preservation can synergistically reshape music education reform.
Location Name
512C
Full Address
Palais des Congres - Montréal Convention Centre
1001, Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle
Montreal QC H2Z 1H2
Canada
Session Type
Short Paper Presentation
Presenting Author(s)
BOWEI WANG