Jasper Zheng (Shuoyang)
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Researcher in Explainable / Creative AI and Music Technology.

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Recent Articles

[Journal] Gestural Affordances in AI Audio Latent Space. Frontiers in Computer Science [pdf]

[CHI'25 EA] XAIxArts Manifesto: Explainable AI for the Arts. In EA of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems [pdf]

Embodied AI: Writing music in/with neural audio models

A study on how we (musicians) learn performing techniques, create musical notations, and use musical gestures in the computational representations of AI (neural audio) models.

Category Research Subject Creative AI
Date Aug, 2025

Sketch-to-Sound Mapping with Interactive Machine Learning

Exploring interactive (personalised) constructions of mappings between visual sketches and musical controls. An prototype that leverage unsupervised feature learning to generate latent mapping using interactive machine learning.

Category Research Subject Creative AI
Date Feb, 2024

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

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

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About

Dec, 2025

Shuoyang Zheng (Jasper) (he/him) is a PhD student at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), funded 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. He has been an Associate Lecturer at UAL Creative Computing Institute, leading the Mathematics and Statistics for Data Science unit, co-teaching the Exploring Machine Intelligence unit.

During the 2020 lockdown, he wrote songs and produced tracks under the name "Alaska Winter".

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