2025 Theme: “The Artist in the Loop”

The AI Music Creativity conference is an annual conference bringing together a community working on the application of AI to music practice. The intersection of AI and Music research is highly interdisciplinary with topics ranging from performance systems, computational creativity, machine listening, robotics, sonification, and more.

The AIMC 2025 theme, “the artist in the loop”, aims to capture the myriad ways creative artists might modify, steer, train, or control AI systems, or equally to be modified, steered, trained or controlled by them. It invites innovation and analysis of the many forms of feedback loop and the many touchpoints between creators and AI systems across timescales and human scales: the immediacy of live performance and creation; the nurturing of styles and techniques; the formation of genres, software products, and corporations.

Of particular interest are:

• Search and Discovery: how can AI enable artists to explore spaces of creative possibilities and discover points of interest, even profound novelty?
• Control and Differentiation: how can we overcome problems of control of generative AI systems, and how does an artist reinsert their distinctive selves into processes of AI creation?
• Rich Engagement Beyond the Output: musical output is not everything. How can AI support musical creation that has expanded benefits – enriching understanding of music theory, music history, production techniques, nurturing sociality or cultural expression, or integrating music into rich multidimensional creative contexts.

• New AI tools for composition or performance
• Formal analysis of music AI systems
• Creative practice-based research in music AI
• New applications of music AI
• Understanding human, machine and collective creativity in music AI
• HCI for music AI
• Theory, concepts, frameworks relating to music AI practice
• Research into the global cultures of music AI
• Ethics of music AI

AIMC 2025 welcomes contributions of academic papers, musical works, and workshop & tutorial proposals relevant to the conference topics. All submissions must be made by the given deadline following the instructions provided below. Submissions will be accepted or rejected following a thorough double-blind peer review process for papers and a single-blind peer review process for music and workshop/tutorial submissions.

Papers

Papers presenting original research are invited on any of the conference topics. Paper submissions must demonstrate an appropriate research methodology and will be evaluated according to their relevance, originality, academic quality, significance, readability, ethical standards and paper organisation.

Format: Please prepare your paper using the Word and Latex templates provided here.

Length: Each paper should not exceed 5000 words in length (not including abstract, figure captions, acknowledgements, ethics statement, references or appendices).

Abstract: Papers must include an abstract of up to 150 words which clearly articulates the contribution to knowledge of the paper.

Multimedia: We encourage rich use of multimedia to augment your paper, either embedded or available via links: pictures, illustrations, videos, audio files and software. We also encourage links to code repositories. Submitted works should be original, i.e. not published elsewhere and not currently under review.

Ethics Statement: We encourage authors to include an Ethics Statement at the end of their paper that shows that relevant ethics approval has been given for human research, and covers other relevant issues such as permission to use any input data for the training of AI systems. You may also include an Acknowledgement section to acknowledge and funding or support, plus any number of Appendices.

Anonymity: For double-blind review, initial paper submissions should remove authors and take reasonable efforts to conceal the identity of the authors. This includes using anonymous URLs to share any supporting material.

We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials. These sessions should be interactive and focus on new technologies, systems, or artistic practices. Proposals should specify the maximum number of participants, and the duration (e.g., hour, half day, full day). We strongly encourage proponents to indicate the skills, experiences, or artifacts that the participants will acquire.

The submissions will be subject to single-blind peer-review, with a final joint decision of the tutorial and conference chairs, depending on the quality of the proposed activity as well as limits imposed by the conference schedule. Contributors may be requested to slightly adapt their proposals to better fit the schedule and/or organizational requirements.

Submissions should include:

• A paper of 800-1000 word (excluding title, abstract, and references) describing of the activity, including:
  • Workshop or Tutorial session title
  • Abstract (max 150 words)
  • Review contextualizing the practice field relevant to your work
  • Methods taken in developing the work
  • The hands-on nature of the workshop/tutorial (i.e., how will this be distinct from a long presentation)
• A technical rider detailing:
  • List of contributors, with name/affiliation and a short bio for each contributor (150 words max)
  • Equipment you will provide
  • Equipment which you will require (including setup detail such as tables, space requirements, power, Audio/Video...)
  • Proposed duration
  • Any accessibility requirement
  • Any other relevant documentation (e.g. web links)

The paper should be formatted using the Word or Latex templates provided here. The technical rider will only be used for organizational purposes and has no fixed template.

• Create an account with Microsoft CMT and review submission instructions on the AIMC CMT site.
• Use the Latex or Word templates for paper submissions.
• Submit your abstract by the abstract submission deadline.
• In addition, submit your full submission by the submission deadline.
• Take all reasonable efforts to anonymise paper submissions.
• Ensure all necessary material is accessible to reviewers (and anonymous when in the context of a paper submission).

Important Dates

• Call Opens: 1st Nov. 2024
• Abstract submission deadline: 4th April 2025
• Paper, Music, Tutorial submission deadline: 11th April 2025
• Notifications to Authors: 30th May 2025
• Camera-Ready Deadline: 14th July 2025
• Proceedings online, conference begins: 10th Sept. 2025

All deadlines are until midnight on the specified date, anywhere on Earth (AoE timezone).