Robust Personalized Human-AI Collaboration with SmartLooper

This demonstration can be presented either as a live improvised performance or as a recorded video of one. Like most music, it is better listened to rather than read about. We developed an AI ``smart looping'' system for collaborative human-AI real-time performance. A dataset is created by the artist who will be using the system. In performance, the artist begins by improvising a short musical fragment---say, a bass groove---and the system starts riffing on it in their style, based on the data they provided. Sometimes it repeats a phrase exactly; other times it makes small changes---shifting the rhythm, altering harmonic progressions---but not too much at once. The artist plays over this evolving loop, adding new lines or textures as the system continues to develop its own variations. The result is a fluid, co-created improvisation. It has been demonstrated in multiple live performances.