The first two articles in this issue constitute an overflow from the special issue “Musical Interactivity in Human–AI and AI–AI Partnerships,” which began in CMJ 46:4. The guest editors of the special issue—Ken Déguernel, Bob L. T. Sturm, Artemi-Maria Gioti, and Georgina Born—wrote the Editors' Notes in the present issue, describing those two articles.
The remaining three articles were submitted independently to the Journal. The first of these is not off topic, being serendipitously related to the special issue’s theme. Titled “Raging with the Machine in the Uncanny Valley: Human–AI Cocreativity in the Eurovision-Themed AI Song Contest,” it describes the techniques used for constructing the authors' submission to that contest. AI systems were utilized to generate candidate snippets of lyrics and melodies. The authors devised a technique to find the generated melodies whose stress patterns best matched those of the generated lyrics. In addition, to obtain novel synthetic timbres, the...