Title: Autonomy in the interactive music system VIVO,
Abstract: Interactive Music Systems (IMS) have introduced a new world of music-making
modalities. But can we really say that they create music, as in true autonomous
creation? Here we discuss Video Interactive VST Orchestra (VIVO), an IMS that
considers extra-musical information by adopting a simple salience based model
of user-system interaction when simulating intentionality in automatic music
generation. Key features of the theoretical framework, a brief overview of
pilot research, and a case study providing validation of the model are
presented. This research demonstrates that a meaningful user/system interplay
is established in what we define as reflexive multidominance.