Digital Arts Entrepreneurship: Evaluating Performative Interaction

Using Incongruous Genres to Explore Music Making with AI Generated Content

“…To explore the appropriation of AI in music making practice we purposefully engage musicians with an AI model trained on a different musical genre to their own. In doing so we take inspiration from playful approaches to speculative musical interface [33] and HCI design [56] with the "purpose of challenging [the musicians] to use an unfamiliar creative framework" (ibid.) as a driver to explore interaction and appropriation of an AI model.…”

“…We are also not arguing that our incongruous genres approach is a tool for early stage speculative design cf. [33,56]. We are suggesting that the approach offers opportunities to explore how AI Generated Content is used in creative practice and how creative practice responds to AIGC.…”

“…In this paper we take an AI plugin trained on an Irish Folk music dataset [60] and explore how it is used and appropriated in the music making practices of two sets of musicians from different musical genres. We purposefully use incongruous genres of music as a form of playful and speculative HCI design thinking [33,56]. Reflecting on first-person accounts of these explorations we offer insights into the use and limitations of the AI plugin and how it was appropriated by musicians into their creative practices.…”