Assisted music creation with Flow Machines: towards new categories of new
This is an incremental reflection on a long-term project in AI-assisted music creation, primarily for researchers and practitioners in computational creativity.
The paper reflects on 10 years of research in AI-assisted music composition through the Flow Machines project, summarizing its motivations, results, and impact, and proposes new categories of novelty created by AI-generated material.
This chapter reflects on about 10 years of research in AI- assisted music composition, in particular during the Flow Machines project. We reflect on the motivations for such a project, its background, its main results and impact, both technological and musical, several years after its completion. We conclude with a proposal for new categories of new, created by the many uses of AI techniques to generate novel material.