Arthur Flexer is a senior researcher and project manager at the ‘Institute of Computational Perception’ at Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria. He has worked in basic research for more than 30 years at JKU, at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence and at the University of California San Diego. He holds a degree in computer science and a PhD in psychology providing him with an engineering and a humanities background. He has published comprehensively on a breadth of AI and music topics, authoring and co-authoring more than 100 peer-reviewed articles.