Computer Facilitated Creation in Musical Performance

Abstract|Music is one of the most sophisticated as well as one of the most popular arts. Everyone wants to hear new good music. However, the productivity of composing pieces of music is limited. Moreover, people want to enjoy not only listening to but also performing music. However, many diÆculties prevent people from actually performing music. We have been working on technologies that enhance human musical creativity. This paper discusses how com-puter can and should facilitate the creative processes in-volved in performing music. We describe three attempts made toward this aim: supporting musical divergent think-ing, supporting conveyance of musical knowledge, and sup-porting non-creative musical processes. Based on our expe-riences in making these attempts, we discuss how and where computers can contribute to the musical creation process