Revival: Collaborative Artistic Creation through Human-AI Interactions in Musical Creativity

Revival is an artwork and innovative live audiovisual performance by the artist collective K-Phi-A, which integrates human and machine musicianship through artificial intelligence to produce electronic music and its audio-reactive visuals. The performance is centred on real-time co-creative improvisation between human performers—a percussionist and an electronic music artist—and AI musical agents. These musical agents are trained on the works of deceased composers and compositions created by the collective, enabling them to respond dynamically to human input and emulate complex musical styles. An AI-driven visual synthesizer, Autolume, generates visuals responsive to the evolving musical landscape with a human VJ. This performance exemplifies the potential of AI in co-creative artistic creation, demonstrating how AI and human artists can collaboratively create in a live music improvisation context.