AIMC 2026
The 7th Conference on AI Music Creativity took place in Berlin, Germany, from 16 to 18 September 2026. Its theme was The Generative Turn: Mediated Musicianship in a Hyper-reproductive Age.
Proceedings
The 2026 proceedings comprise papers, workshops and tutorials, and music contributions. Individual publications are available through their DOI records.
Papers
Matthew Peachey and Joseph Malloch. Exploring Musical Creativity in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Qualitative Inquiry
Stéphane Gauvin. A Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis of AI vs. Conventional Music Videos
Michael Oehler, Leonard Bruns, Benedict Saurbier, and Tray Minh Voong. Analyzing Creative Collaboration Discourse in VR Music-Making through Computational NLP
Ge Liu, Philippe Pasquier, Keon Ju Lee, Paul Triana, Tao-Tao He, and Martin Malandro. Scaffolding Symbolic Music Generation: An Evaluation of Two Generative MIDI Tools for Novices
Sönke Erdmann, Julia Senfft, and Gergö Degen. Do Generative AI Systems Hinder or Encourage Creativity in Music Education?
Vincenzo Madaghiele, Stefano Fasciani, Tejaswinee Kelkar, and Çağrı Erdem. Modeling Relations Between Musical Events in Continuous Time with Transformer Models for Live Co-Improvisational Interactions
Àlex Barrachina, Lonce Wyse, and Sergi Jordà. Real-Time Conditioning Strategies for Shared Agency in AI-Mediated Piano Improvisation
Louis McCallum and Anna Wszeborowska. Scaffolding Off-the-Shelf Text-to-Audio Models for Real-Time Generation in Live Performance
Florent Berthaut, Ken Déguernel, Mathieu Giraud, Barbara Dang, Matteo Plichon, and Olivier Capra. Audience Experience of Visual Augmentations for Human-AI Co-Improvisations
Fabian Ostermann, Marco Pleines, and Günter Rudolph. BbLearn: Sculpting Behavioral Clones in Modular Blackboard-Driven Music Systems
Evan O’Donnell and Atau Tanaka. AFTERnaut: A Multi-Modal Interactive Interface for Embodied Exploration of Neural Synthesis Latent Spaces
Dominic Thibault and David Piazza. Wænderer: Repurposing Pre-Trained VAEs as Instruments via Abstract Timbre Space
Błażej Kotowski and Frederic Font. Architecture and Affordances of PLAUD: Performative Latents and Unsupervised DDSP
Leonardo Auri, Tom Beckmann, Henrik von Coler, and Robert Hirschfeld. Exploring High-Dimensional Spaces: Evaluation of a Node-Based Interface for Neural Audio Synthesis
Esteban Gutiérrez, Behzad Haki, Christopher Haworth, Xavier Serra, and Rodrigo Cádiz. Learned Continuous Synthesis of Quadratic Difference Tone Spectra
David Piazza. Material Biases as Compositional Resources in Text-to-Audio Models
Riccardo Ancona. Epistemic Inadequacies in Neural Audio Synthesis Evaluation
Matthew Sandler. Embedding Amnesia and the Partial Ear of Machine Listening
Chenxi Bao, Jingrui Han, Zhaokai Wang, and Clinton Watkins. Whose Intent? Distributed Authorship, Cross-Modal Constraints, and the Limits of Generative Music Systems in Screen Scoring
Abdolrahim Tooranian and Bob L. T. Sturm. Audio-Side Reinforcement Learning for Symbolic Music Style Adaptation: Extending SMART with Composite Rewards
Louis McCallum and Mick Grierson. Find the Neurons, Control the Feature? Selection Strategies for Network Bending Audio Models
Mikael Molliex and Étienne Abassi. Personalized Gesture-to-Sound Mapping for Accessible Digital Musical Instruments
Veronika Reutz Drobnić and Julian Brandhofer. A Duet of Intelligences: Human–AI Co-Creation in Live Piano Performance
Oded Ben-Tal. On the Music(ai)lly Possible
Olivier Jambois. A local LLM-based system for interactive musical improvisation
Alexander Lunt and Sebastian Trump. Pattern Atlas: Exploring Personal Rhythm Spaces in Ableton Live with a Transformer-Based Variational Autoencoder
Uandha Fernandes Barbosa and Dominic Thibault. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Can Live Coding and Large Language Models Ride Together?
Matteo Lorito. Navigating Density Topologies: Multi-Scale Markov Chains for Real-Time Rhythmic Co-Improvisation
Evan Moore, Mateo Bellefleur Martinez, and Stéphane Drouin. M.E.S.H. – Navigating the latent space through the body-instrument; reclaiming one’s digital traces in the age of large AI models
Koray Tahiroğlu, Mikael Hokkanen, Robin Welsch, Mikko Sams, Jukka Nykänen, Mäel Archenault, and Agnes Kloft. Seeing Sound: An Audiovisual Interpretation of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day”
Koray Tahiroğlu, Mikael Hokkanen, Robin Welsch, Mikko Sams, Jukka Nykänen, Mäel Archenault, and Agnes Kloft. Real-Time MIDI Transformer Integration in Pure Data: A Multi-Threaded Architecture for Interactive AI Music Generation
Lluis Guerra Recas and Olivier Jambois. Emotion Driven Dialogue — A Model of Mediated Musicianship through Biofeedback-Informed Improvisation
Shun Sawada. Where Does Instrumentality Reside in Symbolic Music? A Structural Analysis of a Symbolic-Domain Instrument Classifier
Adam Wilson. Fast Discovery of Motivic Patterns in Symbolic Music via Lossy Compression
Steven Lewis. Performing in the Assemblage: Virtuosity in AI-Mediated Environments
Loïs Guerci and Laure Prétet. ClimaCS: A Multi-genre Dataset of Timed Comments for Music Highlight detection
Dong-Feng Guo and Wei-Chi Chien. From Prompt to Platform: Agency in a Suno Workflow for Taigi Pop Music
Alfred Pichard and Stefan Lattner. Descriptor-Aware Latent Granular Mosaicing for Real-Time Audio Re-Synthesis
Laura Ibáñez-Martínez, Roser Batlle-Roca, Xavier Serra, and Martín Rocamora. MusGU+: Toward a Musician-Centered Evaluation Framework and Discovery Tool for Generative Music AI
Paolo Sandejas, Zhaohan Cheng, and Ajay Kapur. Loops That Listen: A Voice-Controlled Dynamic Drum Looper with AI Variation
Renhang Liu, Abhinaba Roy, and Dorien Herremans. Leveraging LLM Embeddings for Cross Dataset Label Alignment and Zero Shot Music Emotion Prediction
Laura Bouget. Creative Compression: Rethinking Musicianship in AI-Mediated Music
Ivan Zavada. Advancing Mediated Musicianship in Computational Co-Creativity
Matthew Creighton. Circle: high-dimensional latent space traversal in real time on a two-dimensional controller
Abhinaba Roy, Junyi Liang, and Dorien Herremans. nnAudio 2: Overcoming Dynamic Compilation Barriers and Transform Inconsistencies
Jordan Shier, Teresa Pelinski, Charalampos Saitis, Andrew Robertson, and Andrew McPherson. Rescuing Performance from the Demo: Co-Designing Drum Gesture Mappings with a Percussionist
Andres Mondaca Sepúlveda. What the Label Misses: A Hybrid Multidimensional Taxonomy for Analyzing Heterogeneous Uses of GenAI in Popular Music
Michael Ott and Atser Damsma. Adaptive Real-Time Spatialization for Live Music Improvisation
David Dalmazzo and Ken Déguernel. Modeling 53-TET Chord Progressions with a Microtonal GPT-2
Guilherme Coelho. The Age of Hyperreproduction: Latent Floods, Autosimulacra, and the New Media Ecology of Generative AI
Benjamin Lavastre and Brice Gatinet. Adapting Saxophonists’, Flutists’, and Clarinetists’ expertise to the Karlax DMI Mediated by Neural Networks
Edgar Eggert and Philipp Stolberg. Crowdsourcing Open-License Music Tags on Closed Creative Platforms: A Negative Case Study of a Game-with-a-Purpose on TikTok
Kieran White and Rahime Belen Saglam. Beyond Engagement: A Rule-Based Approach to AI-Driven Music Recommendation for Emotional Wellbeing
Joseph Longardner. Group Listening and Authorship Discrimination of AI-Generated and Human-Produced Instrumental Music
Tugrul Orkun Akyol. LoRA Training and the Fragmentation of Style in Text-to-Music Systems
Tutorials and Workshops
Nicola Leonard Hein, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, and Gilbert Nouno. Dialoguing with Improvising Machines: A comparative-phenomenological Workshop on Musical Agent Systems
Philippe Pasquier. Computer-Assisted Composition Tutorial: From Survey to Studio Workflows with MIDI-GPT
Music
Oded Ben-Tal. Wahrheit. Freiheit. Dummheit. Bosheit. (Truth. Freedom. Stupidity. Malice.)
Anna Gatzioura. Distant Memories: A co-creative approximation to urban soundscape memory
Bruna Guarnieri and Gabriel Vigliensoni. Orbits and Bodies: A Live Audiovisual Performance with Bespoke Machine Learning Instruments
Michael Ott and Atser Damsma. Adaptive Real-Time Spatialization for Live Saxophone Improvisation
Erik Nystrom. Compose/Decompose
Thomas Boulousis. The Allegory of the Cave
Chenxi Bao, Baisen Wang, and Yuting Wu. Glitching the Algorithm: Reclaiming Performative Agency through Real-Time Distilled AI and Experimental Fine-Tuning
Yinuo Chen. return 0: An Audio-Visual Performance of Memory and Countermemory
Fabian Ostermann and Tim Löhde. Planting and Shaping the Neural Tree: Growing a Musical Collaborator Through Objective-Free Neuroevolution in Open-Ended Exploration
Martin Heinze. Latent Jamming in Reykjavík Sunburn: Electronic Music Improvisation Employing Generative Neural Audio Synthesis
Błażej Kotowski. Latent Sampling: a PLAUD Performance
Ferdinando Romano. Co-creative Practices in AI Improvisation: Redefining Agency in a Solo Performance
Ilia Viazov. sonic.snapshot
Adam Wilson. The Fourth Man, for fretless electric guitar and real-time electronics
Dominic Thibault and David Piazza. Burnt Memories - Echoes of Datasets through Embodiement
Federico Visi. Ghosts in the Sophtar
Nicola Casetta. Eigenform: A Neural-Feedback Hybrid System for Improvisational Electronic Music Performance
Nicola Leonard Hein. Twisted Circuits | Rhythm Traces - III - For Buchla Music Easel, Musical Agent System, and Sonic Acceleration Box
Sara Montagni. LT: Embodied Memory and Field Recording as Compositional Practice in the Age of Generative Audio
Pingting Xiao. Sonic Echoes of Ink
Alvaro Collar. Noise as Signal: Rorscharch’s Garden