Nova Armonia, AI Music Festival San Marino

Edition Zero · 29 January 2027

Nova Armonia, AI Music Festival San Marino

Where does the tool end, and the author begin?

When29 January 2027
VenueAuditorium Little Tony
LocationSerravalle, San Marino

The meaning

We are not celebrating the machine in place of the artist. We explore the space where humans and generative systems collaborate on the birth of a song.

Nova Armonia shows not only the result but the process: the idea, the prompt, the selection, the revision, the aesthetic choices, the authorial responsibility. Every finalist track takes the stage together with its process sheet: the public account of how it came to be.

The evening

A live final,
between 8 and 12 songs.

8–12

Finalist tracks

Selected through an international public call, presented one by one with their creative process.

5

Principles

The Festival Charter: transparency, human centrality, respect for artists, experimentation, education.

TV + radio

Media partners

The final will be recorded for television and the competing tracks may be broadcast through radio partners, giving the festival media continuity beyond the evening.

The awards

Categories that say
what we consider valuable.

The awards do not stop at musical quality. They recognise the new forms of authorship: the idea, the dialogue with the machine, the storytelling, the transparency.

  • 01

    Best Artistic Idea

    The strength of the initial intuition, even before its execution.

  • 02

    Best Human–Machine Dialogue

    The quality of the exchange between author and generative system.

  • 03

    Best Narrative Use of AI

    AI as voice and storytelling, not as a shortcut.

  • 04

    Creative Transparency Award

    The honesty and clarity with which the process is told.

  • 05

    Audience Award

    The choice of those in the hall and those watching from home.

The Festival Charter

An ethical stance,
written in black and white.

Five principles that bind participants, jurors, partners and organisers. Not a manifesto against AI, nor in its favour: a way of holding together creative enthusiasm and cultural responsibility.

Read the Charter
  1. 01Transparency
  2. 02Human centrality
  3. 03Respect for artists
  4. 04Experimentation
  5. 05Educating the audience