Upcoming events
On 4-6 November, Bob Sturm, André Holzapfel and I are organizing this event at Digital Futures, KTH: “The Ethics of AI in Music, Art and Everything Else: Does the World Need a Manifesto?”. Attendance is by invite only!
Conferences
2025. AI Music and Creativity 2025, AIMC, Brussels, Belgium. 10-12 September.
2024. The First International Conference in AI Music Studies, Stockholm, Sweden. November 2024. 10-12 December.
2024. VIHAR workshop online, presentation of the paper “Data Ethics and Practices of Human-Nonhuman Sound Technologies and Ecologies” together with Petra Jääskeläinen.
2024. Presentation at AIMC with the paper “AI Music Studies: Preparing for the Coming Flood”.
2024. “Entanglements with Deepfake: AI Voice Models and their Diffractive Potential”, presentation at the conference Intersectional Materialisms: Diversity in Creative Industries, Methods and Practices. 12th New Materialisms Conference, Aug 26-28 2024, Maynooth, National University of Ireland.
2024. Presentation at the conference Musicology in the 21st century: challenges and prospects, Lund, Sweden. 18-19 April.
2023. “Human-Animal Studies in Contemporary Art Music”. Arctic Assemblages: Strengthening the Environmental Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Stockholm, 26-27 Oct.
2023. “Teoretiska och metodologiska reflektioner ur avhandlingen ‘Encounters Between Music and Nature: A Productive and Transversal Approach to Contemporary Music Analysis’”. Musikforskning idag, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Stockholm. 13-15 June.
2020. “Naturbegrepp i nutida konstmusik: från organicism till rhizom i Helena Tulves Extinction des choses vues. Musikforskning idag (Zoom). 10-12 June.
2019. “Musical Temporalities and Complex Rhythm as Ways of Coexistence with Nature in John Luther Adams’s Inuksuit”. Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia Conference. Participation in the “Deleuze Camp” prior to the conference. University of Tokyo, Japan. 21-23 May.
2017. “The Flight of Birds: A Music-Nature Assemblage in Kaija Saariaho’s Laconisme de l’aile”. Taking Flight: Assembling, Becoming, Queering, 10th International Deleuze Studies Conference. Participation in the “Deleuze Camp” prior to the conference. Toronto, Canada. 19-21 June.
2016. “Music as Movement: Deleuzian Becoming in Time, Space and Movement”. Musikforskning idag, Växjö, Sweden, 14-16 Jun.
2015. “The Ontology of Music-Body-Dance in 20th Century Swedish Ballets: Establishing a Philosophical and Aesthetic Framework with Gilles Deleuze”. Nordic Musicological Conference, Aalborg, Denmark.
Academic lectures, workshops and seminars
2025. Visit and presentation of research at RITMO, University of Oslo. 3-5 March.
2024. From Birdsong to Deepfakes: Attending to Challenges for Music in the 21st Century. Presentation at the Posthumanities Hub, 26 Sept. https://posthumanitieshub.net/2024/09/12/the-posthumanities-hub-webinar-26-9-from-birdsong-to-deepfakes-attending-to-challenges-for-music-in-the-21st-century/
2024. Research presentation at the Division of History of Technology, Science, and the Environment, KTH, 11 Nov.
2024. Lecture on the music in fantasy films, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, 22 Oct.
2024: Presentation of my doctoral dissertation at the research seminar in musicology, Örebro University. 24 April.
2024. “Musik och artificiell intelligens: skiftande agenser, demokratisering och etnografiska studier”, presentation at the research seminar at Statens Musikverk, Stockholm. 6 May.
2023. “Vad kan musik göra för miljön? En studie över tre svenska verk av nutida tonsättare som sätter miljö och klimat i fokus”, workshop with the Bernadotte Programme at Vitterhetsakademien, Stockholm. 18 Sept.
2023. Co-organizer of seminar for researchers at the Dep. of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, with the topic “What meaning cannot convey: nature, gestures and the living”.
2018. Co-organiser of Deleuze Workshop at Uppsala University, Stockholm, with invited Professor Edward Campbell.
Public lectures, talks and interviews
2025. Interviewed by Professor Francisco Tigre Moura in his series on AI & Creativity.
2023. “Musik, natur och klimat.” Public lecture about contemporary music, nature and the climate, at Musik- och teaterbiblioteket, Stockholm. 21 Sept.
2023. “Hon tonsätter klimatkrisen: ‘Jag har gått igenom alla fem stadierna för sorg.’” Interview in Dagens Nyheter (DN). 27 Sept.
2023. “Musik i samklang med naturen”. Interview in the music magazine Lira, #3 2023. 21 Sept.
Elin Kanhov, Ph.D. 