Are the robots coming? Designing with autonomy & control for musical creativity & performance

Chamberlain, Alan

Abstract

This paper1 expands upon our previous work, and starts to unpack notions of autonomy and control in musical composition and performance-based systems. The term autonomous has become synonymous with technologies such as “autonomous vehicles” and “drones”, while notions of control have mainly been raised in respect to the “control” of industrial systems and in respect to protocols. This position piece disrupts these notions and provides a platform, introducing a more radical proposition in respect to the representation of autonomy and control of features that can be used to design systems that support musical composition and performance. This paper supports a growing interest within the Design, HCI and Artificial Intelligence communities, leading us to think about Human Like Computing systems and the development of a Computational Creativity Continuum.

Citation

Chamberlain, A. (2017). Are the robots coming? Designing with autonomy & control for musical creativity & performance.

• Conference Name: Proceedings of the 12th International Audio Mostly Conference on Augmented and Participatory Sound and Music Experiences
• End Date: Aug 26, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Aug 23, 2017
• Publication Date: Oct 23, 2017
• Deposit Date: Dec 5, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 5, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Article Number: 54
• Series Title: AM '17
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, CHI, CSCW, Control, Creativity, Design, Ethnography, Human-Like Computing, Machine Learning, Music, Musical Instrument, Performance
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/888909
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3123514.3123568
• Related Public URLs: http://audiomostly.com/am17-proceedings-in-acm-digital-library/
• Additional Information: Published in: AM '17 Proceedings of the 12th International Audio Mostly Conference on Augmented and Participatory Sound and Music Experiences, Article No. 54 ; London, United Kingdom — August 23 - 26, 2017 ; ACM : New York, NY, USA ©2017.; ISBN: 9781450353731 doi. 10.1145/3123514.3123568