Creative Autonomy Through Salience and Multidominance in Interactive Music Systems: Evaluating an Implementation

Interactive music systems always exhibit some autonomy in the creative process. The capacity to generate novel material while retaining mutuality to the interaction is proposed here as the bare minimum for creative autonomy in such systems. Video Interactive VST Orchestra is a system incorporating an adaptive technique based both on the concept of salience as a means for retaining mutuality to the interplay and on multidominance in the adaptive generation process as a means for introducing novelty. We call this property reflexive multidominance. A case study providing evidence of such creative autonomy in VIVO is presented.