Bastian Vobig Musicology with Focus on AI-supported Improvisation Analysis in Music Therapy Contexts

Bastian Vobig studied Musicology (M.A.) at Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, with a focus on classical and contemporary music analysis, popular music studies, and systematic musicology.

From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a lecturer at JMU Würzburg, teaching music theory and music analysis, computational musicology, and hip-hop studies.

Between 2022 and 2025, he was a research associate at Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences within the research project HIGH-M (Human Interaction Assessment and Generative Segmentation in Health and Music). In this context, he developed the first AI-based analytical system for the assessment of musical interaction in music-therapeutic improvisations.

Since 2024, he has been pursuing a doctoral degree in this field, investigating the relationship between depressive disorders and musical interaction on the basis of empirical data using digital analytical methods and artificial intelligence. His doctoral project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Trump (Professor of Artificial Creativity and Musical Interaction, Nuremberg University of Music) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Wosch (Professor of Music Therapy, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt).

Since October 2023, Bastian Vobig has been a research associate at the Nuremberg University of Music, with a focus on AI-based improvisation analysis in music-therapeutic contexts. His research interests include the interdisciplinary analysis of (co-)creative processes, digitally supported music analysis with an empirical focus, and topics in systematic musicology, such as authenticity and game theory.