Creative Activities and Reflection through Collaborative Composition between Professional Musician and Automatic Music Composition System

Abstract

The use of automatic music-composition systems enables musicians to create new music more easily. This study analyzes the relationship between collaborative composition between professional musicians and an automatic music-composition system based on an ethnographic case study. Human-machine-based composition represents a new wave in music culture. First, we frame this work as an effort considering creation based on the concept of boundary crossing. We then introduce an overview of automatic music-composition systems. We group our findings into three different categories: (1) artificial intelligence as a tool for reflection in action, (2) "bricolage" and "scaffolding" through participation in collaborative composition, and (3) restriction thorough collaboration with artificial intelligence.