Improtek: introducing scenarios into human-computer music improvisation

J Nika, M Chemillier, G Assayag - Computers in Entertainment (CIE), 2017‏ - dl.acm.org
This article focuses on the introduction of control, authoring, and composition in human-
computer music improvisation through the description of a guided music generation model …

Dyci2 agents: merging the" free"," reactive", and" scenario-based" music generation paradigms

J Nika, K Déguernel, A Chemla, E Vincent… - International computer …, 2017‏ - hal.science
The collaborative research and development project DYCI2, Creative Dynamics of
Improvised Interaction, focuses on conceiving, adapting, and bringing into play efficient …

Combining real-time extraction and prediction of musical chord progressions for creative applications

T Carsault, J Nika, P Esling, G Assayag - Electronics, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Recently, the field of musical co-creativity has gained some momentum. In this context, our
goal is twofold: to develop an intelligent listening and predictive module of chord sequences …

[PDF][PDF] Rethinking reflexive looper for structured pop music

M Marchini, F Pachet, B Carré - Proceedings of the International …, 2017‏ - academia.edu
Reflexive Looper (RL) is a live-loo** system which allows a solo musician to incarnate the
different roles of a whole rhythm section by loo** rhythms, chord progressions, bassline …

Lessons from joint improvisation workshops for musicians and robotics engineers

A Carter, M Papalexandri-Alexandri… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
We report on a series of workshops with musicians and robotics engineers aimed to study
how human and machine improvisation can be explored through interdisciplinary design …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic Classification Models for Human-Machine Improvisation and Composition

J Borg - 2020‏ - repmus.ircam.fr
This thesis presents a number of updates to an existing real-time system for human-
computer improvisation, among them a modular framework for integrating new models for …

Multi-Step Chord Sequence Prediction Based on Aggregated Multi-Scale Encoder-Decoder Networks

T Carsault, A McLeod, P Esling, J Nika… - 2019 IEEE 29th …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the prediction of chord progressions for jazz music by relying on machine
learning models. The motivation of our study comes from the recent success of neural …

Generating equivalent chord progressions to enrich guided improvisation: application to Rhythm Changes

K Déguernel, J Nika, E Vincent… - SMC 2017-14th Sound …, 2017‏ - inria.hal.science
This paper presents a method taking into account the form of a tune upon several levels of
organisation to guide music generation processes to match this structure. We first show how …

Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Making Music Together

G Bloch, J Nika - Exploring Transdisciplinarity in Art and Sciences, 2018‏ - Springer
Abstract Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf are three great musical ladies,
born in 1915. Could we make them singing together? This was the goal of a performance …

Apprentissage de structures musicales en contexte d'improvisation

K Déguernel - 2018‏ - theses.hal.science
Les systèmes actuels d'improvisation musicales sont capables de générer des séquences
musicales unidimensionnelles par recombinaison du matériel musical. Cependant, la prise …