The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2022: Summary and Results

https://aimc2023.pubpub.org/pub/ynxz9uu7

We discuss the design and results of The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2022 and compare it to the previous two challenges. While the 2020 challenge focused on generating Irish double jigs, and the 2021 challenge focused on generating Swedish slängpolskor, the 2022 challenge posed three sub-challenges in the context of Irish traditional music: generation of reels, judging tune submissions, and titling tunes. In total seven systems participated in the sub-challenges, along with benchmark systems. One tune was awarded first prize by the judges, and two tunes shared second prize. A submitted system for judging tunes clearly performed better than two benchmarks. Finally, human tune-titling outperformed the benchmark and submitted system, but gave rise to some interesting issues about tune titling.