FLIS: Podcast About Music and Listening

It’s possible Chopin would use AI tools to work on orchestration of his pieces. In this episode, the FLIS duo and their guests discuss Chopin (clearly!), language models, but also reggaeton, country, swing and Drake. Can artificial intelligence be musical? How could AI tools aid the jurors or participants of the Chopin Competition? How should algorithmic work be credited in new art? Prof. Aleksand...

In this episode, we discuss whether or not good taste exists (it doesn’t) and ponder whether to clap or not to clap when the music’s over. The joys & sorrows of serious music, the elite & mass combined in the Chopin Competition. Izabela Smelczyńska and Filip Lech talk to the music curator Michał Mendyk. The guest of episode 3, Chopin season of the podcast FLIS is Michał Mendyk, curator, ed...

‘That’s a tough one’ – replied our guest asked if the Chopin Competition leaves room for humour. ‘I sometimes like to sit on the balcony, behind the jury, so that I can observe their reactions. Once I saw a juror fall asleep during the performance. His head was nodding as he dozed off and at some point he leaned on another juror, which woke him up. I won’t publicly say who it was, but I can reveal...

A Different Take on the Chopin Competition – we're excited to bring you season 2 of FLIS: podcast about music and listening. Our main focus is Frederic Chopin, but this week you'll learn a thing or two about Iga Świątek and Adam Małysz. Dr Aneta Bartnicka-Michalska is the guest of the first episode. The philosopher and psychologist will tell us more about the minds of young musicians. How...