For many years, François Pachet led Sony's digital technology lab in Paris. It was from there, starting back in the 1990s, that he started thinking up ways to make music with the help of artificial intelligence. 

That's how Flow Machines was born, a software that in 2016 created Daddy's Car, a Beatles-style track generated by AI made waves across the internet: at once a breath of fresh air and a small bombshell. After Sony, he moved to the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab, where he designed the next generation of AI tools for music-making and released Hello World, the first album ever composed with artificial intelligence,  and the result of a collaboration between AI, Benoît Carré aka SKYGGE, and a constellation of musicians. 

Today he’s the director of YnoSound, a company that’s dedicated to AI music creation using next generation software. Pachet is also a guitarist and the author of Histoire d'une oreille, a book about how the musical ear develops through listening. At Sónar+D, he comes to share, in his own words, three decades of experiences at the intersection of AI and Music,  including some memories from long before such a thing even existed.

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