Portrait of Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh

Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh

Music Technology · Computer Science

Presentations, Workshops & Media

A selection of international presentations, workshops, and media appearances connecting research on AI and Arab music to broader academic and public audiences.

Panel on stage in front of a screen reading Music and AI, Concert and Panel Discussion
"Music & AI: Concert and Panel Discussion," Carleton College, February 2025.
Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh and Melissa Scott presenting at the American Musicological Society meeting
Presenting "AI Ecstasy? Towards Generative AI Tools for Arab Music" with Melissa J. Scott, AMS 104th Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2024.

Presentations

"Music & AI: Concert and Panel Discussion"

Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA. February 20, 2025.

Watch the full event recording on Carleton College's media library.

Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh in conversation with Omar Abbad at the Music and AI event at Carleton College
In conversation with Omar Abbad during the "Music & AI" event at Carleton College.

"Tarab Music in the Era of Artificial Intelligence" (in Arabic)

32nd Arab Music Festival and Conference, Cairo Opera House, October 2024. Session chaired by Prof. Kifah Fakhoury, Secretary General of the Arab Academy of Music. Presented with Prof. Alexander Jensenius (U. Oslo), Prof. Kamel Smaïli (U. Lorraine), and Prof. Nedal Nsairat (U. Jordan).

"How can machine translation help generate Arab melodic improvisation?"

Contribution to the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) 2023.

"Predicting and Critiquing Machine Virtuosity: Mawwal Accompaniment as Case Study"

International Computer Music Conference, 2021.

Additional Conference Presentations

2025
"Can AI Improvise on the Oud? A Brief Journey through Two Experiments in Generating Arab Music" (in Arabic), with M. Scott and O. Abbad. Third Session of Music and Artificial Intelligence: Possibilities and Limitations, Fourth Musicological Series, Arab Music Researchers Group. April 5.
2025
"Can AI Play the Oud? Experimenting with Music AI Models for Arab Traditions," with M. Scott. Online panel hosted by the Society for Arab Music Research (SEM) and the Arab World Study Group (ICTMD). February 27.
2024
"AI Ecstasy? Towards Generative AI Tools for Arab Music," workshop presentation and demonstration with A.R. Jensenius and M.J. Scott. American Musicological Society 104th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. November 16.
2024
"Tarab Music in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Our Experience in Research, Development, and Capacity-Building in Higher Education," with K. Smaïli, A.R. Jensenius, and N. Nsairat. 32nd Arab Music Festival and Conference, Cairo, Egypt. October 12.
2024
"Using Generative AI in the Music Classroom: Concepts, Methods, and Future Collaborations" (in Arabic), with M. Scott. Fourth International Conference on Music and Society in the 21st Century, Faculty of Music Education at Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. October 10.

Workshops

"Digital Skills in AI Sound/Music Tools: Technical Workshop"

FACTORY, a project of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman. January 31, 2024.

A hands-on technical workshop introducing artists and students to AI-based sound and music tools, delivered in collaboration with FACTORY at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts. The capstone video below summarizes the workshop's demonstrations and outcomes.

Media

Featured interview (in Arabic) with Alhayah TV Network, Cairo, Egypt — discussing the significance of AI tools for music and the presentation at the 32nd Arab Music Festival and Conference, October 2024.

Interview (in Arabic) with University of Jordan Radio on bridging humanistic and STEM domains, January 2023.

AI-Generated Music with Suno

An experiment in prompting the generative music platform Suno toward Arab maqam idioms — testing how far current text-to-music models can be steered toward maqam-based melodic and rhythmic conventions.

Listen to the track on LinkedIn →