The first two articles from this Computer Music Journal issue are the continuation of the special issue on musical interactivity in human–AI and AI–AI partnerships. This special issue examines the role of AI in computational creativity and music generation, with a focus on mixed-initiative cocreative systems that facilitate collaboration between human and AI agents in music. Through its articles, coauthored by computer scientists, artists, musicologists, and media theorists, it addresses the implications of these AI-driven creative processes for performance, composition, music recommendation, and other related issues, and confronts the conceptual, analytical, and ethical challenges arising from the integration of AI in various musical contexts and practices.
The first article, by Thelle and Wærstad, describes the artistic research project Co-Creative Spaces, involving three Norwegian and one Kenyan artist engaging cocreatively with artificial agents trained on the humans' previous improvisations. The authors describe the impact of the artificial agents in their creative...