Bob Sturm
Call for Submissions for the Special Issue of Computer Music Journal on
Musical Interactivity in Human-AI and AI-AI Partnerships
Guest Editors:
Ken Déguernel (lead), postdoctoral researcher in music and AI, KTH (Sweden) + Research fellow in Computer Science at CNRS (France) (starting Jan 2023)
Bob L. T. Sturm, Associate Professor of Computer Science, KTH (Sweden)
Artemi-Maria Gioti, Research Fellow in Music and AI, UCL (UK) & Lecturer in New Media and Digital Technologies for Music, University of Music Dresden (Germany)
Deadlines:
- Submission deadline: 31 December 2022
- Initial online publication of articles: Mid 2023 (individually, soon after each is accepted, with subsequent updates incorporating the Journal's editing and formatting)
- Expected publication of issue: December 2023
Focus: Musical Interactivity in Human-AI and AI-AI Partnerships
There are currently a number of special journal issues (published or seeking contributions) centred on the topic of music and artificial intelligence (AI), showing an ever-growing interest in that field. For instance:
AI for music (F1000Research Collection)
Deep Learning applied to Music Signal Processing (EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing)
Advances in Computer Music (Applied Sciences)
AI, Augmentation and Art (Journal of Pervasive Media)
AI and Musical Creativity (Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval).
We are proposing yet another special issue, but focused on human-AI and AI-AI interactions and partnership within musical contexts. It aims to cover a broad range of topics, from music generation to performance, music analysis, and technological ethics, and to bring together state-of-the-art research from the engineering sciences with emerging artistic practices and perspectives from the humanities, in order to bridge the technical, aesthetic and theoretical underpinnings of music AI. Accepted articles of this special issue will address how humans can/could/should interact with and use AI, and how these interactions shape and impact creative and artistic musical practices (and vice versa).
Of particular interest are: how interactions with AI can help one understand, inform, evaluate, and/or model creative processes (e.g., performance, composition, improvisation, audience appreciation, and music recommendation); the unique challenges that arise from human-AI and AI-AI interactions; ethical implications of applying AI to music in regards to different practices, different genres, and different target audiences; critical reflections on the various methods and purposes underpinning the use of AI; novel applications and methods of interactions with AI in music, from creative-support tools to multi-agent systems, leading to new human-AI or AI-AI co-creative partnerships for all kinds of musicking: music generation, performance, rehearsal, production, listening, and so on; and also beyond that, for applications such as music analysis or music criticism by AI regarding learned or discovered aesthetic criteria.
In summary, we invite original submissions that address, but are in no way limited to, the following topics:
Interfaces for human-AI and AI-AI interactions
Multimodal interaction
Understanding and modeling of creative music processes through AI partnership
Music analysis and criticism by computers
Unique challenges relating to the interaction with and in between AIs for music
Relationship between artistic practices and AI
Ethics of applying AI to music
Explainability and transparency in music AI
Critical approaches to music AI.
Submission Guidelines:
Manuscripts should follow the guidelines of Computer Music Journal (https://direct.mit.edu/comj/pages/submission-guidelines). Queries and manuscripts should be emailed directly to the guest editors (ken.de...@univ-lille.fr, bo...@kth.se, artem...@gmail.com) with the subject line "CMJ AI Music Special Issue".
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