Autonomy in the interactive music system VIVO

Interactive Music Systems (IMS) have introduced a new world of music-making modalities. But can we really say that they create music, as in true autonomous creation? Here we discuss Video Interactive VST Orchestra (VIVO) — an IMS that considers extra-musical information by adopting a simple salience-based model of user-system interaction when simulating intentionality in automatic music generation. Key features of the theoretical framework, a brief overview of pilot research, and a case study providing validation of the model are presented. This research demonstrates that a meaningful user–system interplay is established — what we define as reflexive multidominance.