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most citedExploring the Needs of Practising Musicians in Co-Creative AI Through Co-Design

7 citations · 14 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.NE2026

Evolving to the Aesthetics of a Vision-Language Model

Stephen James Krol, Jon McCormack

Evolutionary systems have demonstrated remarkable results in creative domains, with recent applications in generative typography, design, and music. However, an open problem remain…

cs.HC2025

Supporting Creative Ownership through Deep Learning-Based Music Variation

Stephen James Krol, Maria Teresa Llano, Jon McCormack

This paper investigates the importance of personal ownership in musical AI design, examining how practising musicians can maintain creative control over the compositional process.…

cs.HC2025★ 7 cited

Exploring the Needs of Practising Musicians in Co-Creative AI Through Co-Design

Stephen James Krol, Maria Teresa Llano Rodriguez, Miguel Loor Paredes

Recent advances in generative AI music have resulted in new technologies that are being framed as co-creative tools for musicians with early work demonstrating their potential to a…

cs.HC2024

Design Considerations for Automatic Musical Soundscapes of Visual Art for People with Blindness or Low Vision

Stephen James Krol, Maria Teresa Llano, Matthew Butler +1

Music has been identified as a promising medium to enhance the accessibility and experience of visual art for people who are blind or have low vision (BLV). However, composing musi…

cs.HC2024★ 4 cited

No Longer Trending on Artstation: Prompt Analysis of Generative AI Art

Jon McCormack, Maria Teresa Llano, Stephen James Krol +1

Image generation using generative AI is rapidly becoming a major new source of visual media, with billions of AI generated images created using diffusion models such as Stable Diff…

cs.NE2023★ 1 cited

Creative Discovery using QD Search

Jon McCormack, Camilo Cruz Gambardella, Stephen James Krol

In creative design, where aesthetics play a crucial role in determining the quality of outcomes, there are often multiple worthwhile possibilities, rather than a single ``best'' de…

cs.CY2023★ 2 cited

Is Writing Prompts Really Making Art?

Jon McCormack, Camilo Cruz Gambardella, Nina Rajcic +3

In recent years Generative Machine Learning systems have advanced significantly. A current wave of generative systems use text prompts to create complex imagery, video, even 3D dat…

cs.CL2022

Towards the Generation of Musical Explanations with GPT-3

Stephen James Krol, Maria Teresa Llano, Jon McCormack

Open AI's language model, GPT-3, has shown great potential for many NLP tasks, with applications in many different domains. In this work we carry out a first study on GPT-3's capab…