Ryan Groves - Building Artificially Intelligent Musical Composers - CCRMA Open House 2017 Keynote

Biography: Ryan received his B.S. in Computer Science from UCLA, and continued on to complete a Master's in Music Technology from McGill University. As the former Director of R&D for Zya, he developed a musical messenger app that automatically sings your texts, called Ditty. Ditty won the Best Music App of 2015 by the Appy Awards. In 2016, his research in computational music theory was awarded the Best Paper of the most prominent music technology conference, ISMIR. With his new venture, Melodrive, he and his co-founding team of two PhDs in Music and AI are looking to build the world's best artificially intelligent composer, and to change the way music is experienced in video games and virtual environments.