7 papers
MIDI-LLaMA: An Instruction-Following Multimodal LLM for Symbolic Music Understanding
Meng Yang, Jon McCormack, Maria Teresa Llano +2
Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLM) for audio music have demonstrated strong capabilities in music understanding, yet symbolic music, a fundamental represent…
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.…
Exploring the Feasibility of LLMs for Automated Music Emotion Annotation
Meng Yang, Jon McCormack, Maria Teresa Llano +1
Current approaches to music emotion annotation remain heavily reliant on manual labelling, a process that imposes significant resource and labour burdens, severely limiting the sca…
Do Conversational Interfaces Limit Creativity? Exploring Visual Graph Systems for Creative Writing
Abhinav Sood, Maria Teresa Llano, Jon McCormack
We present a graphical, node-based system through which users can visually chain generative AI models for creative tasks. Research in the area of chaining LLMs has found that while…
Exploring Real-Time Music-to-Image Systems for Creative Inspiration in Music Creation
Meng Yang, Maria Teresa Llano, Jon McCormack
This paper presents a study on the use of a real-time music-to-image system as a mechanism to support and inspire musicians during their creative process. The system takes MIDI mes…
Mimetic Poet
Jon McCormack, Elliott Wilson, Nina Rajcic +1
This paper presents the design and initial assessment of a novel device that uses generative AI to facilitate creative ideation, inspiration, and reflective thought. Inspired by ma…
Holon: a cybernetic interface for bio-semiotics
Jon McCormack, Elliott Wilson
This paper presents an interactive artwork, "Holon", a collection of 130 autonomous, cybernetic organisms that listen and make sound in collaboration with the natural environment.…