Live Coder in the Loop: Performing with an Autonomous Agent

Live Coder in the Loop: Performing with an Autonomous Agent in TidalCycles is a proposed performance wherein collaborative musical interaction is explored with an agent system in the live coding language TidalCycles. The performance will demonstrate a hybrid approach where the human can accept and reject suggestions from an autonomous agent, and the live coder has explicit control over the suggestions from the agent. The agent can generate patterns that are modifiable based on changing affective states to model human emotion. Specifically, this performance interrogates the practical and aesthetic dimensions of co-creating with a code-generating AI agent, embodying the paper’s call for systems that prioritise reflection, shared agency, and liveness.