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Ricercar: An AI-Based Music Companion

Ali Nikrang (AT)

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Ricercar is an interactive AI-based music composition system being developed by Ali Nikrang at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

“Ricercar” refers to a musical form of the Renaissance and Baroque which means “search” in Italian. Composers used it for pieces in which they experimented with a theme or musical idea to discover qualities such as permutation, possibilities in variation and harmonic potential.

Ricercar: An AI-Based Musical Companion follows a similar idea. It aims to create an intuitive interface between human artists and an AI-based composition system, in which human users and the AI system can collaboratively discover the potential of a musical idea, given to the system by the users or initialized by the system itself. The interaction takes advantage of the benefits of artificial creativity, as well as the human ability to personalise and control the system’s output.

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