Musical agents are artificial agents that tackle musical creative tasks, partially or completely.
This review of musical agents combines the terminology of Generative Arts (artistic practice) …

Abstract The field of Musical Metacreation (MuMe) has produced impressive results for both
autonomous and interactive creativity, recently aided by modern deep learning frameworks …

Conventional wisdom has it that trustworthy autonomous systems (AS) should be
explainable, dependable, controllable and safe tools for humans to use. Reflecting on a …

Despite a long history of generative practices in music, creation of large-scale form has
tended to remain under direct control of the composer. In the field of musical metacreation …

There has been a strong tendency in distributed computational creativity systems to
embrace embodied and situated agents for their flexible and adaptive behaviour …

A musebot is defined as a piece of software that autonomously creates music and
collaborates in real time with other musebots. The specification was released early in 2015 …

This thesis concerns the development and use of interactive performance systems designed
for improvised musical performance. Written from the perspective of a performer-developer …

Many music students today experience difficulties in composing melodies without a prior
harmonical guide. While harmony can be helpful in creating a melody the generation of …

Musebots are autonomous musical agents that interact with other musebots to produce
music. Inaugurated in 2015, musebots are now an established practice in the field of musical …

Whatever vibrates is a musical instrument: whatever is stable is a mechanical brain—the
difficulty lies in making a particular one.(Ashby 2008, no. 158) For all of humankind's …