Crossroads: Interactive Music Systems Transforming Performance, Production and Listening

Abstract

We discuss several state-of-the-art systems that propose new paradigms and user workflows for music composition, production, performance, and listening. We focus on a selection of systems that exploit recent advances in semantic and affective computing, music information retrieval (MIR) and semantic web, as well as insights from fields such as mobile computing and information visualisation. These systems offer the potential to provide transformative experiences for users, which is manifested in creativity, engagement, efficiency, discovery and affect.