A concert of human and artificial music

Call for Works 

Exploring Human-AI Collaboration in Music Creation

We invite composers, sound artists, and musicians to participate in an open call for short compositions (30 seconds to 2 minute) accompanied by text-based prompts that explore the evolving relationship between human creativity and AI-generated music. This initiative seeks to understand how AI generative tools can enhance, challenge, or reshape musical creation, promoting a space for experimentation and dialogue. Selected submissions will be used along with their prompts to generate new AI-based compositions that serve as companions, continuations, or counterpoints to the original works. The submissions will be used to create a major collaborative work – a dialogue between human and AI interpretations of similar ideas. This collaborative work will be used as a basis for research on human and artificial creativity.   

Categories of Participation 

Participants are encouraged to submit works in one of the following categories: 

  • Human-Composed (Non-AI): Created entirely by human composers without the assistance of AI. Any genre or musical style is welcome.  
  • AI-Human Hybrid: A collaborative process where AI-generated material is modified, arranged, or expanded by human composers. 

Submission Guidelines 

  • Duration: 30 seconds to 2 minutes 
  • Format: WAV or MP3 (high quality) 
  • Description: For each submission, please provide a detailed text prompt describing your piece (200 words max). You might include elements such as structure, techniques, emotions, genres, narrative and instrumentation. 
  • Metadata: Title, year of composition, and composer’s name, email, and institution (if applicable). 
  • Declaration: Confirm that your submission adheres to the AI usage guidelines for your chosen category. 

How to Participate 

  1. Create your piece within one of the two categories. You can submit as many pieces as you like.  
  1. Describe your creative process by submitting a prompt that reflects your artistic intent. 
  1. Upload your work via the submission form (link to be provided). 
  1. Agree to participation terms, which include potential research use and inclusion in a concert, installation, and/or online repository. 

What Happens Next? 

  • Selected pieces will be used along with their prompts to generate new AI-based pieces that serve as companions, continuations, or counterpoints to the original works. One of the goals would be to create a major collaborative musical work. 
  • Selected pieces will be presented in a concert, installation and digital showcase. 
  • Listeners and participants will engage in interactive listening experiments to reflect on the role of AI in music. 
  • Research on creative prompts and the influence of generative models in musical composition will emerge from the collected works. A sonic analysis will explore the characteristics of the submitted and generated pieces. 

This project is an opportunity to reimagine the possibilities of music-making in an era of AI. Rather than replacing human creativity, how can AI become a partner in composition? Join us in this exploration! 

Deadline: March 31

Submit your work here: link to form 

Questions? Contact us at cromcn1@lsu.edu