About the Project:
Music with A.I. is a research and artistic production process where A.I. is used as a tool in the support to musical composition.
While in the visual arts A.I. has advanced to the point of producing complex works of art from a few words of text, in musical production the process remains very much one where human intervention is necessary, which leads to a form of complex technological artistic development where the tool does not replace the human but, instead, leads to a different creative engagement pattern in the production of complex works.
The current project involves the production of different musical compositions that will be made available as Youtube playlists at the youtube channel:
Carlos Pedro S. Gonçalves - YouTube
The musical composition involves the use of A.I. as a compositional tool, the creative process involves multiple choices that the human composer needs to make, including musical scale, the feeling that should be expressed, the type of musical ensemble and so on. Choice on whether to use an influence or a style defined by the author to start the generative process.
In most musical pieces the original piece produced by the A.I. was modified in terms of instruments and sometimes even scales, in this sense, especially in the Strigoi musical project, there are few pieces that correspond to the A.I.'s raw output. In many cases, significant changes were performed. In this sense, the main pieces of the current research project are examples of Human-A.I. collaboration in musical creation.
The creative dynamics is complex not only in the choices involved prior to the production of a musical piece but also in the post-processing of the raw piece which involves multiple choices on the part of the human composer, a perception of the patterns and overall message contained in the piece, including instruments used, changes in some patterns, loudness and so on. This is all made available by the AIVA software (https://www.aiva.ai/) which can be used both by digital musicians and researchers into the application of A.I. in musical production.
About the Author:
Carlos Pedro Gonçalves
Associate Professor at Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies - School of Economic Sciences and Organizations - Department of Management on Civil Aviation and Airports.
Integrated Researcher at The Transdisciplinary Research Center of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Ecosystems (TRIE), researching on Complexity Sciences, Chaos Theory, Risk Science, Quantum Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Studies, Studies in Intelligence and Security, FinTech and Financial Risk.