Cole, Ross. “The Problem with AI Music: Song and Cyborg Creativity in the Digital Age.” Popular Music, vol. 39, no. 2, May 2020, pp. 332–338, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261143020000161.
Mycka, Jan, and Jacek Mańdziuk. “Artificial Intelligence in Music: Recent Trends and Challenges.” Neural Computing and Applications, 16 Nov. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-10555-x.
Annotation: Author Jan Mycka, a reasearcher based in Warshaw, Poland’s University of Technology, researches human behaviors in the context of music, specifically those harmonically and melodically. Author Jacek Mańdziuk is a professor at the Warshaw University of Technology and researches machine learning or computational intellegence. This article serves as a comprehensive guide for all relationships between AI and music, and is extremely thorough and extensive. Because it is so large, I have decided to work with only the portion that best suits my paper. The section I will be working with is section 2.1, which is all about AI music generation. This section is split into 7 subsections, with each section touching on different parts of how the music is generated, expressiveness of the music, and the potential problems of music generation. This is very valuable to my paper because there isn’t much information on exactly how music generation tools create their music. This source goes into detail about how the tools work and how “expressiveness” is created in AI music, something that is very important to improvisation and creativity in music. Convinently, this paper has a table of contents that makes it very easy to navigate, and is filled with various explanations about essential music theory knowledge that makes it more digestible for the reader.
Moreno, J. L. “Theory of Spontaneity-Creativity.” Sociometry, vol. 18, no. 4, Nov. 1955, p. 105, https://doi.org/10.2307/2785848. Accessed 26 Apr. 2020.
Annotation: Jacob L. Moreno was a very distinguished and highly honored psychiatrist, psychosociologist, and educator. He is best known for founding psychodrama, and being one of the founders of group therapy. He is known for his books on psychodrama and his many theories. This theory discusses the relationships between spontanious decisions and creativity and how they are very different. He uses Beethoven’s 9th Symphony as an example of how they are related, showing us how the interplay of his visions thoughts and inspirations that came during creative spurts are absent in the final work, and how ultimately creativity is a series of creative acts, requiring spontaneity as a catalyst. This text is valuable to me because it helps understand the psychological behavior behind improvisation, something that I will need to reference often as sponteneity and creativity are both very broad terms. This theory will help me narrow what parts I am talking about specifically in my paper when it comes to these topics. I am limited with this source because of the historical context, as some parts of this may be outdated. I will need to counteract this with current research.
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Wilf, Eitan Y.. The Inspiration Machine: Computational Creativity in Poetry and Jazz, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226828329