Flat Latent Manifolds for Human-machine Co-creation of Music. (arXiv:2202.12243v3 [cs.SD] UPDATED)

The use of machine learning in artistic music generation leads to
controversial discussions of the quality of art, for which objective
quantification is nonsensical. We therefore consider a music-generating
algorithm as a counterpart to a human musician, in a setting where reciprocal
interplay is to lead to new experiences, both for the musician and the
audience. To obtain this behaviour, we resort to the framework of recurrent
Variational Auto-Encoders (VAE) and learn to generate music, seeded by a human
musician. …

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