What Makes it Fun? Mapping Playful Interaction in Music-Making with AI

Jingjing Sun (Imperial College London)*; Francesco Di Maggio (Eindhoven University of Technology); Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London); Corey Ford (University of the Arts London); Bart Hengeveld (Eindhoven University of Technology); Sebastian Deterding (Imperial College London)

What Makes it Fun? Mapping Playful Interaction in Music-Making with AI
Image credit: Jingjing Sun (Imperial College London)*; Francesco Di Maggio (Eindhoven University of Technology); Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London); Corey Ford (University of the Arts London); Bart Hengeveld (Eindhoven University of Technology); Sebastian Deterding (Imperial College London)
  • The registration for this workshop is managed by the workshop organisers. Please check the workshop's website page for more information
  • Type: In person
  • Room Location: 205
  • Afternoon (2pm-6pm)
  • Signup Deadline: June 2nd AoE
  • Contact Email: here

Abstract:

Playfulness is a recurring yet undertheorised dimension of digital musical instrument design and human-AI music interaction. Although NIME practitioners have long engaged with playful interaction, the experiential and structural conditions that make musical interaction feel playful have rarely been treated as a primary object of inquiry. This workshop brings together practitioners, designers, and researchers to examine playful AI music systems through hands-on interaction and collaborative analysis. Working from participants’ own projects and curated open-source examples, the workshop will collectively develop a shared vocabulary for articulating how playfulness arises in AI-mediated music-making, and derive design implications for playful AI music systems across diverse musical communities.

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nime26-workshop/home/