What is it about?
The paper explore what design factors contribute to an illusion of agency in a generative music system. It is based on audience responses to duet performances between a human musician and our interactive music software called CIM. CIM is capable of 6 distinctive responsive behaviours that are applied dynamically according to assessment of the emerging duet context. The results showed our CIM system succeeded in imparting a sense of agency, and that all four of the suggested factors contributed to that impression..
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Our interactions with 'smart' machines are expanding, and creative interactions are amongst the most nuanced. We consider machine agency in this context as being both generative and autonomous, in ways that contribute to an ability to interact musically with a human partner.
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This paper focused on audience reception of duet performances with an interactive music system. Audience survey data clearly reveals that members formed an impression of machine agency, and that each of the four factors focused on in this study—visual, spatial, timbral and musical—were seen as important in discerning two performing agents.
algorithmicmusic@gmail.com Andrew R. Brown
Griffith University
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This page is a summary of: Factors affecting audience perceptions of agency in human computer musical partnerships, January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/2466627.2466661.
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