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

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Auteurs principaux: Bradshaw, Louis, Spangher, Alexander, Biderman, Stella, Colton, Simon
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author Bradshaw, Louis
Spangher, Alexander
Biderman, Stella
Colton, Simon
author_facet Bradshaw, Louis
Spangher, Alexander
Biderman, Stella
Colton, Simon
contents 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.
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spellingShingle The Ghost in the Keys: A Disklavier Demo for Human-AI Musical Co-Creativity
Bradshaw, Louis
Spangher, Alexander
Biderman, Stella
Colton, Simon
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
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.
title The Ghost in the Keys: A Disklavier Demo for Human-AI Musical Co-Creativity
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01663