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URL:https://music.colostate.edu/events/lecture-and-music-demonstration-kir
 chers-arca-musarithmica-artificial-creativity-in-the-17th-century/
SUMMARY:Lecture and Music Demonstration: Kircher’s Arca Musarithmica -Art
 ificial Creativity in the 17th Century
DESCRIPTION:In his 1650 book Musurgia universalis\, Jesuit scholar Athanasi
 us Kircher introduced the world to his Arca Musarithmica. This device\, a 
 forerunner of generative AI\, could automatically compose liturgical music
 . In this lecture Joel Bacon will discuss Kircher’s extraordinary ideas 
 on music and artificial creativity\, and perform a musical work composed o
 n the spot by a model of the Arca Musarithmica. The lecture will feature a
  rare copy of Musurgiauniversalis from CSU’s Montfort-Runyan Music Colle
 ction\, with Clarissa Trapp presenting the lavishly illustrated book. \n\
 nJoel Bacon is the Stewart and Sheron Golden Chair of Organ and Liturgica
 l Studies and the Fr. Don Willette Chair of Catholic Studies at Colorado S
 tate University. In 2026 he was named a University Distinguished Professor
 . \n\nClarissa Trapp is the Instruction and Outreach Archivist and Assis
 tant Professor at Colorado State University Libraries. 
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CATEGORIES:College of Liberal Arts Featured Events
LOCATION:Organ Recital Hall\, University Center for the Arts\, 1400 Remingo
 n St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States
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