Ideary: Facilitating Electronic Music Creation with Generative AI

Abstract

This project explores how generative AI can assist electronic music producers in composing rhythms and melodies. Based on detailed user research with electronic music producers, a central tension in music composition is between authorial control and unpredictability. This paper presents Ideary, a concept where users explore the latent space of their custom generative AI models through an XY pad based on extensive user research. A user evaluation shows that music producers responded positively to this approach.