Partners and institutions
Nova Armonia is a cultural undertaking, not a technology showcase. Our first partners are already on board, and the festival is still open: those who join now can still help give it shape.
Our partners
The first organisations that have chosen to accompany Edition Zero.
PatronageItalian Association of Artificial Intelligence Professionals
Italy’s first community of artificial intelligence professionals, companies and researchers. An independent non-profit association working on training, skills certification and the debate on AI ethics.
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AI Music Education & Community
The Italian education and community platform for music made with artificial intelligence: masterclasses, an academy with hundreds of producers, contests and events dedicated to AI music.
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Università Politecnica delle Marche
The research group of the Università Politecnica delle Marche working on artificial intelligence for audio and music signals, home to A3LAB: sound synthesis, restoration of music recordings, audio analysis and interfaces for accessible musical instruments.
Media partnerUniversità degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino
The radio station of the University of San Marino, founded and directed by Roberto Paci Dalò: radio production, sound art and experimentation. Since 2021 it has also been the University’s research centre for radio studies.
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Media partnerDeeJayFox Radio Station
A radio network on air for almost fourteen years, with studios in Milan, Turin, Vigevano and Lodi, alongside the CasaFox music and cultural association. Its programme "Prompt & Play" tells the story of music made with artificial intelligence.
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Public discourse on AI music is polarised between uncritical enthusiasm and outright rejection, and behind the rejection lie serious concerns: the work, the consent, the compensation of those who make music. A third space is missing: serious, curious, ethical, one that stages the real complexity of the relationship between human author and generative tools. Nova Armonia wants to be that space.
Forms of support
Edition Zero is a trial edition with a limited budget: even a modest contribution makes a difference, above all in two areas, the educational side (workshops, masterclasses) and the production quality of the evening.
Opening doors to newspapers, radio and television helps the evening become content that lasts and reaches those who were not in the hall.
Communication channels, mailing lists, relations with the cultural press: sharing the call and mentioning the festival significantly widens the project’s reach.
Schools, conservatories, libraries, music institutes, associations. Suggesting who to involve and easing the first contacts can be the most decisive support of all.
For musicians and music institutions
A festival that reflects on the relationship between author and machine, without the viewpoint of those who teach and make music seriously, would be incomplete. You join by choosing the role most consistent with your practice.
Selecting the finalists, judging on the night, writing the award citations. A mix of musicians, teachers, researchers, journalists.
Performing pieces that began as AI tracks and were then rearranged or reinterpreted by human musicians: the sequence machine → author → stage.
A local musician produces a track together with AI tools and tells its process from the stage: the bridge between an international contest and local identity.
Educational initiatives on assisted composition, critical listening and bringing AI into the musical workflow. Open to students and to musicians who want to adopt generative tools in their own practice.
Senior musicians who offer structured feedback to the finalists before the evening, raising the overall artistic quality.
Short, well-written public moments on authorship, copyright, the musical craft and generative tools.
Become a partner
If you would like to support the festival, bring your expertise or suggest an idea, write to us. We start with a conversation, with no commitment, to find together the form of collaboration that fits best.
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