Elin Kanhov

Elin Kanhov is a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, affiliated with the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing. She is part of the ERC-funded MUSAiC project, exploring AI’s role in music practices, including ethical challenges, more-than-human creativity, and intersections between AI and traditional music communities. Her work bridges musicology, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies with a posthumanist lens.

• Education: PhD in Musicology (Stockholm University, 2023)

Her research investigates how AI technologies reshape musical creation and cultural practices, focusing on data ethics, non-human agency, and the coexistence between technology and ecological systems. She employs ethnographic methods to study online AI music communities and their tensions with traditional practices.

Key themes in her publications include AI’s impact on Irish traditional music, generative AI in sound art (e.g., Stochastic Pirate Radio projects), and diffractive methodologies for analyzing voice synthesis technologies. She has contributed to international conferences on AI music studies, digital humanities, and posthumanist theory.