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The Ghost in the Keys: A Disklavier Demo for Human-AI Musical Co-Creativity

speech-audio › music-ai
📄 Abstract

Abstract: While generative models for music composition are increasingly capable, their adoption by musicians is hindered by text-prompting, an asynchronous workflow disconnected from the embodied, responsive nature of instrumental performance. To address this, we introduce Aria-Duet, an interactive system facilitating a real-time musical duet between a human pianist and Aria, a state-of-the-art generative model, using a Yamaha Disklavier as a shared physical interface. The framework enables a turn-taking collaboration: the user performs, signals a handover, and the model generates a coherent continuation performed acoustically on the piano. Beyond describing the technical architecture enabling this low-latency interaction, we analyze the system's output from a musicological perspective, finding the model can maintain stylistic semantics and develop coherent phrasal ideas, demonstrating that such embodied systems can engage in musically sophisticated dialogue and open a promising new path for human-AI co-creation.

Key Contributions

Aria-Duet is an interactive system facilitating a real-time musical duet between a human pianist and an AI model (Aria) using a Yamaha Disklavier. It enables turn-taking collaboration with low-latency interaction, allowing the model to generate coherent continuations that maintain stylistic semantics and phrasal ideas, opening new avenues for human-AI musical co-creativity.

Business Value

Opens new possibilities for musical creation and performance, potentially leading to novel interactive entertainment experiences, tools for musicians, and new forms of artistic expression. It could also inspire new applications in AI-assisted creativity.