Coming soon. Musicians Coding AI for Themselves
- Editor: Basica, Constantin
- Editor: Zhu, Julie
Coming soon. Musicians Coding AI for Themselves
- Editor: Basica, Constantin
- Editor: Zhu, Julie
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Musicians Coding AI for Themselves blends cutting edge academic research with the real-world experiences of musicians working the intersection of music and AI. This book not only reflects on the philosophical implications of AI in music but also offers readers insights into the technical inner workings of bespoke, artist-crafted AI systems.
The chapters are written by emerging and innovative coder-musicians who present their own artistic practice and research, with a focus on creative, ethical, collaborative, and educational uses of AI. Interviews with leading musicians who have incorporated AI into their work traverse diverse topics, from behind-the-scenes details of how each artist uses AI in their music to the greater conceptual impact of AI on the arts, the future of music technology, and the creative process.
This book will be of interest to practicing musicians who wish to synthesize the creative potential of AI in their music and understand its implications for the wider music community. It will also appeal to students of music composition, music studies, experimental music, music technology, and human–computer interaction.
Contents
- 1. Prelude Personal and Peculiar
- 2. Movement I Machine Learning at the Artist Scale
- 3. Interlude I Interview with Laetitia Sonami
- 4. Movement II Notochord: Designing and Experiencing a Low Latency MIDI Language Model
- 5. Interlude II Interview with George Lewis
- 6. Movement III Machine Grain of Musical AI Voices: Coding Extra‑Normal Values in Live Performance with AI Models
- 7. Interlude III Interview with Jennifer Walshe
- 8. Movement IV The Last Piece: Training AI on a Composer’s Brainwaves
- 9. Interlude IV Interview with Nao Tokui
- 10. Intermission Ethics, Authorship, and Creativity in the Age of ChatGPT
- 11. Interlude V Interview with Ge Wang
- 12. Movement V Deep Drawing
- 13. Interlude VI Interview with Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
- 14. Movement VI The Neural Tape Loop
- 15. Interlude VII Interview with Holly Herndon
- 16. Movement VII Pandora’s Dream: Building a Software Framework for AI-Mediated Live Music Practice
- 17. Interlude VIII Interview with CJ Carr
- 18. Movement VIII The Sweet Spot: Human–AI Alignment with Randomness, Complexity, and Machine Learning
- 19. Postlude Shifts in Creative Practice with Intelligent Machines
- 20. Encore A Collection of Claims on AI Arts Practice
