Jasper Zheng (Shuoyang)
CV


Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

Researcher in Explainable / Creative AI and Music Technology, Computational Creativity.

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Highlights

My work explores AI systems through their convergence with the practices of media and arts.

Full Portfolio (2019-2023)

Soundwalking in Latent Terrain Synthesis

An algorithmic strategy for meaningfully unfolding a neural synth model's latent space into a two-dimensional plane. The unfolded structure is a streamable "latent terrain", one can create sound pieces with greater spectral complexity by tracing a linear path through it.

Category Research Subject Creative AI Date Oct, 2024

Manipulated Network: quirks and oddities from corrupted generative models

I’ve come across plenty of quirks and oddities generated from corrupted models. These models produce impossible, distorted but realistic images, diverted from the original outputs and sometimes lead to aesthetic preoccupations.

Category Artwork Subject Creative AI Date Mar, 2022

↑↑↑% - aestheticise chaotic dynamics in the physical world

↑↑↑% (up percent) is a sound installation that reveals possible interactions of natural systems, sound, light and humans. We are invited to review the metrics of the 'organic collaborators' we are searching for.

Category Artwork Subject Sound Installation Date Dec, 2021

Seasons Change - 气候变换

Seasons are worth celebrating, just like growing ups and wisdom teeth are worth to be written into stories. At long last, the EP, titled “Seasons Change”, is available everywhere.

Category Music Subject EP Date Feb, 2021

What Is Memory? - hallucination of "actual thinking machine"

What Is Memory showcased a series of projects with generative neural network, they experiment with unexpected results triggered by interdisciplinary studies in AI, questioning the possibility of "truly intelligence machine" that we hope confront in the future.

Category Artwork Subject Audiovisual Installation Date Dec, 2019

Full Portfolio (2019-2023)

About

Jan, 2025

Shuoyang Jasper Zheng (he/him) is a PhD student at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), supported by the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI and Music. His works explore AI systems through their convergence with media and arts, primarily focusing on the development of interactive and understandable sound synthesis tools that facilitate musical creations and expressions, and on the understanding of how these technological advances impact artistic practices.

Previously, Jasper got a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool. Besides technological perspectives, he is equally interested in the aesthetical and ethical implications inherent to the development of AI. Therefore, he spent a year at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, to pursue an MSc in Creative Computing, and wrote his thesis on real-time interface for human-AI interaction.

During the 2020 lockdown, he wrote songs and produced tracks under the name "Alaska Winter". In 2024, he led the Mathematics and Statistics for Data Science unit at UAL Creative Computing Institute.

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