BSc CS · UNIBO '22
MSc CS · KTH '24
BA Phil. · UNIBO '25
PhD Student · UoN
Marco Amerotti
PhD Researcher · AI & Music · University of Nottingham
I am a PhD student at the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, within the UK Turing AI fellowship "Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI". My research focuses on supporting traditional music making with AI, with particular attention to Irish traditional dance music practice. Within Somabotics I lead the Traditionable Machines project.
Previously at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), within the ERC project MUSAiC — working on co-creative music performance modeling systems and ethical frictions between traditional communities and music AI.
Main Research Project
LOERIC
A real-time AI system developed for Irish traditional music performance. Given the score of a tune, LOERIC generates expressive ornamentation, timing and dynamics on the fly — listening and adapting to a human co-musician. LOERIC is designed to be highly configurable, allowing one to precisely customise its performance rules and interactive responses. LOERIC has also been used to perform other styles of music, for example playing continuo in an early music setting.
Session performance
Early Music
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2026
"LOERIC × Limerick"
Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham — March 31, 2026
"Small data: situatedness, thickness and the ontological turn"
AIMS'26 — 2nd International Conference on AI Music Studies
"TradJockey: Live Remixing a Performance System for Traditional Music"
AAAI CLIP'26 — In Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances.
Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2865
Springer
"A Live Performance Rule System Informed by Irish Traditional Dance Music"
CMMR'23 — In Music and Sound Generation in the AI Era.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15236
Springer
2025
"On the intelligence and creativity of an artificial intelligence system for traditional music"
Tesi di laurea in Filosofia — Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
"The LOERIC Sessions: Reimagining Contemporary Folk with Rosie, Jamie and an AI performer"
Djanogly Recital Hall, Nottingham — October 22, 2025
"The Virtual Session: Synchronizing Multiple Virtual Musicians Simulating an Irish Traditional Music Session"
ICMC'25 — 50th Anniversary of the International Computer Music Conference
2024
"Performing with AI as a Practice-led Methodology for AI Music"
AIMS'24 — 1st International Conference on AI Music Studies
"Negotiating Autonomy and Trust when Performing with an AI Musician"
TAS'24 — 2nd International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
ACM
"Stochastic Pirate Radio (KSPR): Generative AI Applied to Simulate Community Radio"
AIMC'24 — International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity
"Endless generative AI: a practical tutorial"
Workshop at AIMC'24 — International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity
"Evaluation of an Interactive Music Performance System in the Context of Irish Traditional Dance Music"
NIME'24 — International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
"Modeling composition and performance of traditional music with AI"
Workshop at ICCC'24 — 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity
"Modeling interactive performance of traditional music. Challenges and perspectives"
Master's Thesis in Computer Science — KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
2023
"A Live Performance Rule System Informed by from Irish Traditional Dance Music"
CMMR'23 — 16th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research
Springer (preprint)
2022
"Latent representations for traditional music analysis and generation"
Tesi di laurea in Informatica — Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
KSPR: Stochastic Pirate Radio
A fully AI-generated radio station streaming continuously on YouTube — with AI speakers, AI music, AI programs, AI weather and news updates — all with freely available open-source models.
Folktune VAE
A variational autoencoder for Irish traditional dance music — second prize at AMGC'22.
ABALNN
An experiment in agent-based artificial life with neural networks — evolving behaviours without explicit reward shaping.
Releases
Exitium
Dubstep
Il Rappresentante
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Symposium
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EDMF Vol. 1
EDM
Iliad VI
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