We are joined by Vincent Koops. Vincent is a composer and computer scientist with a background in sound design, music composition and artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in Music Information Retrieval from Utrecht University and is working as a Senior Data Scientist at RTL Netherlands developing AI audiovisual projects for television and video on demand. 

Our conversation focuses on generative AI for audio, more specifically, about his generative AI work at RTL Netherlands in general and his music AI work, in particular, as widely popularised by this year's "AI Song Contest", also billed as "Eurovision with a twist", which he co-organized and was a jury member of. The event resulted in a ISMIR 2020 conference paper, which Vincent co-authored. The AI Song Contest 2020, including an interview with Vincent, can still be  viewed on YouTube and was widely reported on in tech news outlets such as The Verge and Engadget.

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Episode hosts: Marcus Koring, Carsten Mönning
Audio producer: Klaus Reinhardt

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