Koray Tahiroglu

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have driven innovative applications across performative arts, especially in music practices involving real-time content generation and accompaniment. Systems such as Yamaha’s AI pianist and Google’s Magenta show AI’s potential in music, yet most function as reactive partners that follow the performer without shaping the performance collaboratively. Current systems remain largely one-way, tool-like roles where AI reacts but lacks the mutual interaction and shared creative agency needed for meaningful artistic exchange.<br/>The Augmented Performer project proposes a novel paradigm for real-time human–AI co-creation in live music, developing a generative audio AI system that listens to and responds to a pianist, co-composing in real time. The system will integrate expressive performance analysis—capturing timing, dynamics, and articulation—and generate harmonically and rhythmically adaptive responses, enabling a fluid exchange of musical ideas. Unlike conventional accompaniment tools, our approach keeps the human at the creative center, while allowing mutual influence between musician and AI.<br/>

This is something we know about creativity, whether it is imposed as activities that gen- erate new ideas which result in innovative and valuable products or a way of living and acting in the world [1], it is still a social and systemic phenomenon, a social process emerging from dialogues, interactions and social practices shared with others. The joint research project, Co-Creative Artificial Intelligence of Music - CCREAIM, in collaboration with SOPI Research Group Aalto University and Google Brain Team (Magenta), will focus on creativity with a wider social practice approach on mutual interactions between computational technologies and human musicians. The CCREAIM project will investigate the practical implementation of AI enabling new possibilities of connecting technology to artists to open the door to say something new.

I was awarded a grant for scientific publications and artistic activities in 2010 by Helena Hyvönen, the Dean of Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Honorable Mention publication award to our paper Exploring Seasonality in Mobile Cultural Heritage