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International Honorable Mention for Hallucinations at IEEE Big Data 2025 AI Music Competition
Kyle Vanderburg’s *Hallucinations* received an Honorable Mention in the international AI Music Generation Competition at IEEE Big Data 2025, recognizing creative applications of artificial intelligence.
Overview
Kyle Vanderburg’s song cycle *Hallucinations* received an Honorable Mention in the 2025 AI Music Generation Competition, presented as part of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Selected works were featured in the international AIMG workshop and showcase, which brings together researchers and practitioners working across artificial intelligence, music, machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. *Hallucinations* explores human–AI creative collaboration through texts generated using a deliberately constrained large-language-model process.
Professional Context
This recognition places Vanderburg’s creative work within an international, interdisciplinary context connecting music composition with artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. The AI Music Generation Workshop is affiliated with the IEEE International Conference on Big Data and brings together researchers and practitioners from music, machine learning, natural language processing, multimedia, human-computer interaction, and related fields. *Hallucinations* was selected for the workshop’s juried AI Music Competition and Showcase and received an Honorable Mention. The recognition demonstrates both external validation of Vanderburg’s creative activity and the visibility of NDSU creative work within a rapidly developing area of interdisciplinary research and artistic practice.
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