An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices

Martinez-Avila, Juan; Hazzard, Adrian; Chamberlain, Alan; Greenhalgh, Chris; Benford, Steve

Abstract

The practice of working musicians extends beyond the act of performing musical works at a concert. Rather, a significant degree of individual and collaborative preparation is necessitated prior to the moment of presentation to an audience. Increasingly, these musicians call upon a range of digital resources and tools to support this ‘living’ process. We present a speculative design paper in response to a set of ethnographies and interviews with working musicians to highlight the potential contemporary digital technologies and services can bring to bear in supporting, enhancing and guiding musicians’ preparation and practice. We acknowledge the role that artificial intelligence and semantic technologies could play in the design of tools that interface with the traditional practice of musicians and their instruments.

Citation

Martinez-Avila, J., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., & Benford, S. (2018, September). An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices. Presented at Audio Mostly 2018: Sound in Immersion and Emotion, Wrexham, UK

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: Audio Mostly 2018: Sound in Immersion and Emotion
• Start Date: Sep 12, 2018
• End Date: Sep 14, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Sep 3, 2018
• Publication Date: Sep 12, 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 25, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 26, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 1–5
• Series Title: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
• Book Title: AM '18: Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2018 on Sound in Immersion and Emotion
• Chapter Number: N/a
• ISBN: 9781450366090
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3243274.3275381
• Keywords: Music; Practice; Rehearsal; Audio technologies; Artificial intelligence; Semantic media; Desing; Ethnography; HCI; CSCW
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1130535
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3275381
• Related Public URLs: http://audiomostly.com/
• Contract Date: Sep 26, 2018