The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2020: Double Jigs in the Style of O'Neill's ``1001''

Abstract

The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2020 had three objectives: 1) to promote meaningful approaches to evaluating artificial intelligence (Ai) applied to music;2) to see how music Ai research can benefit from considering traditional music, and how traditional music might benefit from music Ai research; and 3)to facilitate discussions about the ethics of music Ai research applied to traditional music practices.There were six participants and a benchmark in the challenge, each competing to build an artificial system that generates the most plausible double jigs, as judged against the 365 published in solved'', but that the evaluation of such systems can be done in meaningful ways.The article ends by reflecting on the challenge and considering the coming 2021 challenge.