About
Thomas Irvine is Deputy Director of the University of Southampton Web Science Institute, Southampton's centre for critical and interdisciplinary AI and web technology. Together with his colleagues Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Les Carr he coordinates AI@Southampton, the University's main AI initiative.
He is a historian of music and music technology from 1500 CE to the present. His current research focuses on AI Music and and global music history. He is the author of Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter 1770-1839 (University of Chicago Press, 2020) and the co-editor, with Neil Gregor, of Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor (Berghahn, 2019).