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An Autoethnographic Exploration of XAI in Algorithmic Composition

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning models are capable of generating complex music across a range of genres from folk to classical music. However, current generative music AI models are typically difficult to understand and control in meaningful ways. Whilst research has started to explore how explainable AI (XAI) generative models might be created for music, no generative XAI models have been studied in music making practice. This paper introduces an autoethnographic study of the use of the MeasureVAE generative music XAI model with interpretable latent dimensions trained on Irish folk music. Findings suggest that the exploratory nature of the music-making workflow foregrounds musical features of the training dataset rather than features of the generative model itself. The appropriation of an XAI model within an iterative workflow highlights the potential of XAI models to form part of a richer and more complex workflow than they were initially designed for.


Open Challenges in Musical Metacreation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Musical Metacreation tries to obtain creative behaviors from computers algorithms composing music. In this paper I briefly analyze how this field evolved from algorithmic composition to be focused on the search for creativity, and I point out some issues in pursuing this goal. Finally, I argue that hybridization of algorithms can be a useful direction for research.


AI for artists : Part 2 โ€“ Towards Data Science

#artificialintelligence

Music is a powerful tool that has made some of the most brilliant minds in the world turn into a state of wonder . Among them was Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Virginia Woolf and the list goes on. Nietzche in his book, Twilight of the Idols said that " Without music life would be a mistake" . In this article we will create music using simple LSTM network but before that let's get a brief idea about algorithmic composition which has occurred in the history of music composition. There are numerous treatises on music theory dating from Greek antiquity but they were not "algorithmic composition" in any pure sense.


Algorithmic Composition of Melodies with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks

arXiv.org Machine Learning

A big challenge in algorithmic composition is to devise a model that is both easily trainable and able to reproduce the long-range temporal dependencies typical of music. Here we investigate how artificial neural networks can be trained on a large corpus of melodies and turned into automated music composers able to generate new melodies coherent with the style they have been trained on. We employ gated recurrent unit networks that have been shown to be particularly efficient in learning complex sequential activations with arbitrary long time lags. Our model processes rhythm and melody in parallel while modeling the relation between these two features. Using such an approach, we were able to generate interesting complete melodies or suggest possible continuations of a melody fragment that is coherent with the characteristics of the fragment itself.


AI Methods in Algorithmic Composition: A Comprehensive Survey

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Algorithmic composition is the partial or total automation of the process of music composition by using computers. Since the 1950s, different computational techniques related to Artificial Intelligence have been used for algorithmic composition, including grammatical representations, probabilistic methods, neural networks, symbolic rule-based systems, constraint programming and evolutionary algorithms. This survey aims to be a comprehensive account of research on algorithmic composition, presenting a thorough view of the field for researchers in Artificial Intelligence.