Nanette Nielsen

Nanette Nielsen

Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo

MishMash role: Member · WP3 , WP4

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Journal article

  1. Journal article, 2026

    Enacting Musical Creativity: The Value of Human Agency in the Face of AI

    Nanette Nielsen

    In his recent critique of well-established simplified comparisons between the human mind and AI, Alva Noë encourages us to 'rage against the machine' (Noë, 2024). In this article, I build on Noë's timely encouragement, and sketch perspectives from both music studies and enactivist philosophy in order to interrogate what musicking might add to the debate. As a case study, I explore the recent public discourse surrounding the AI-band The Velvet Sundown and consider the implications — mental health related and ethical — of engaging with AI-generated music. I draw on current scholarship on musical creativity and AI to discuss the possibilities and limitations of creative agency in AI, laying the foundation for why human creative agency should be regarded more valuable than the artificial creativity that AI offers. I also discuss some ethical implications of sharing agency with AI, suggesting that we should continue to foster attunement to our creative agency and capabilities, as empowered but also vulnerable musicking human agents. I argue that musicking offers an enactive entanglement through which we are granted an opportunity to embrace risk, resist rules, and learn new modes of orientation and reorientation that serve as empowering tools for navigating our way through the resistant path to being human.

  4. Journal article, 2025

    Introducing the MusicLab Copenhagen Dataset

    Simon Høffding ; Rebecca Josefine Five Bergstrøm ; Laura Bishop ; Pedro Pablo Lucas Bravo ; Kayla Burnim ; Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón ; Maria-Alena Clim ; Matthew Good ; Niels Chr. Hansen ; Eirik Slinning Karlsen ; Live Håndlykken Kvale ; Bruno Laeng ; Olivier Serge Gabriel Lartillot ; Eigil Lippert ; Remy Richard Martin ; Nanette Nielsen ; Rahul Omprakash Agrawal ; Thea Sørli Paulsrud ; Fernando E. Rosas ; Dana Swarbrick ; Solveig Sørbø ; Finn Upham ; Atilla Juliana Vrasdonk ; Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski ; Sebastian Wallot ; Wenbo Yi ; Anne Danielsen ; Alexander Refsum Jensenius

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Book anthology

  1. Book anthology, 2020

    The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy

    Nanette Nielsen ; Tomas McAuley ; Jerrold Levinson ; Ariana Phillips-Hutton

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