Cybernetic resurgences: machine music beyond AI slop

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dc.check.date2026-07-30en
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dc.contributor.authorRoddy, Stephenen
dc.contributor.authorBridges, Brianen
dc.contributor.editorZagalo, Nelsonen
dc.contributor.editorKeller, Damiánen
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-11T14:44:59Z
dc.date.available2025-09-11T14:44:59Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-30
dc.description.abstractThis chapter explores contemporary trends in the application of machine learning technologies in music composition and performance contexts. It argues that there is a resurgence of cybernetic approaches to music-making in response to the rapid proliferation of machine learning technologies for artificial media production in recent years. These approaches are contextualised with reference to a history of interactions between cybernetic thought and musical practices, as well as a recent rethinking of cybernetics represented in the work of Yuk Hui and N. Katherine Hayles. It considers the problem of AI slop generators designed and pushed by hegemonic tech giants, paying specific attention to the unethical and irresponsible practices used in their production as well as the algorithmic monoculture perpetuated in their outputs. The chapter then turns to key musical artists at the forefront of the cybernetic resurgence who are engaged in an ethical reappropriation of machine learning techniques away from the big tech giants, before concluding with some suggestions for how an ethically grounded cybernetics of musical machine learning might open a new space of artistic possibility beyond the algorithmic monoculture of AI slop.en
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dc.identifier.citationRoddy, S. and Bridges, B. (2025) 'Cybernetic resurgences: machine music beyond AI slop', in Zagalo, N. and Keller, D. (eds.) Artificial Media: Emerging Trends in Narratives, Education and Creative Practice. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 95-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89037-6_5en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-89037-6_5en
dc.identifier.endpage113en
dc.identifier.isbn9783031890369en
dc.identifier.isbn9783031890376en
dc.identifier.issn2195-9056en
dc.identifier.issn2195-9064en
dc.identifier.startpage95en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17857
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
dc.relation.ispartofSpringer Series on Cultural Computingen
dc.relation.ispartofZagalo, N. and Keller, D. (eds.) Artificial Media: Emerging Trends in Narratives, Education and Creative Practice. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerlanden
dc.rights© 2025, the Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published as: Roddy, S. and Bridges, B. (2025) 'Cybernetic resurgences: machine music beyond AI slop', in Zagalo, N. and Keller, D. (eds.) Artificial Media: Emerging Trends in Narratives, Education and Creative Practice. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 95-113. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89037-6_5en
dc.subjectCyberneticen
dc.subjectMusicen
dc.subjectAIen
dc.subjectMLen
dc.subjectAI/MLen
dc.subjectSlopen
dc.subject~Digital Arts and Humanities - Book Chapters~en
dc.titleCybernetic resurgences: machine music beyond AI slopen
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