Upcoming Evening Talks

Songs Across Centuries: Cultural Continuity in Music and Artificial Intelligence

MAURO DURANTE.

in conversation with Drs. Stefano Santo Sabato and Bridget Algee

Traditional music survives not by remaining unchanged, but by evolving. Folk repertoires endure because each generation reinterprets them—carrying forward cultural memory while reshaping form and meaning for the present.

In this conversation, musician and composer Mauro Durante reflects on his creative process of rearranging centuries-old Mediterranean folk traditions into contemporary musical language. His practice becomes a lens for a broader question: how do humans preserve continuity across time while embracing transformation?

Joining the dialogue, Stefano Santo Sabato and Bridget Algee-Hewitt explore parallel challenges in AI and the humanities: how knowledge is transmitted, how context is retained, and what is gained—or lost—when systems are built without cultural depth.

Bringing together music, technology, and humanistic inquiry, the event argues for a multidisciplinary, top-down approach to AI design—one that begins with meaning, memory, and the long arc of human experience.