Autopia: An AI Collaborator for Live Coding Music Performances

Lorway, Norah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6255, Powley, Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Wilson, Arthur, Speakman, John A. and Jarvis, Matthew (2019) Autopia: An AI Collaborator for Live Coding Music Performances. In: International Conference on Live Coding, 5-7 February 2020, University of Limerick, Ireland.

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Abstract / Summary

Live coding is “the activity of writing (parts of) a program while it runs” (Ward et al., 2004). One significant application of live coding is in algorithmic music, where the performer modifies the code generating the music in a live context. Utopia is a software tool for collaborative live coding performances, allowing several performers (each with their own laptop producing its own sound) to communicate and share code during a performance. We have made an AI bot, Autopia, which can participate in such performances, communicating with human performers through Utopia. This form of human-AI collaboration allows us to explore the implications of computational creativity from the perspective of live coding.

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