The 7^th Conference on AI Music Creativity

While submissions responding to the particular theme of the conference are especially encouraged, the conference welcomes contributions that engage with any aspect of AI music research and practice.

Submission Checklist

Create an account with Microsoft CMT and review submission instructions on the AIMC CMT site.

Please use the LaTeX, Typst or Word templates for paper submissions, including papers accompanying tutorial/workshop and music.

Ensure all necessary supporting material is accessible to reviewers.

For papers:

• Submit your abstract by the paper abstract submission deadline.

• Submit your full paper by the submission deadline.

• Take all reasonable efforts to anonymize paper submissions, including any supporting material.

For music:

• Submit your recording, companion paper, and rider by the submission deadline.

For tutorials and workshops:

• Submit your paper and technical rider by the submission deadline.

Submission Types

AIMC 2026 welcomes contributions of academic papers, musical works, and workshop & tutorial proposals relevant to the conference topics. All submissions must be made by the given deadline following the instructions provided below. Submissions will be accepted or rejected following a thorough double-blind peer review process for papers and a single-blind peer review process for music and workshop/tutorial submissions.

Papers

This year's conference theme is "The Generative Turn: Mediated Musicianship in a Hyper-reproductive Age": papers that engage with hyper-reproduction, mediated musicianship, prompt-based creative practice, platform infrastructures, distributed agency, or the broader technical and cultural transformations of AI-mediated music will be particularly welcome. We also encourage critical and historical perspectives that situate current developments within longer trajectories of musical automation, reproduction, and mediation. However, any paper relevant to AI and music will be considered.

Paper submissions must demonstrate an appropriate research methodology and will be evaluated according to their relevance, originality, academic quality, significance, readability, ethical standards and paper organisation.

Format: Please prepare your paper using the Word and Latex templates provided here.

Length: Each paper should not exceed 5000 words in length (not including abstract, figure captions, acknowledgements, ethics statement, references or appendices).

Abstract: Papers must include an abstract of up to 150 words which clearly articulates the contribution to knowledge of the paper.

Multimedia: We encourage rich use of multimedia to augment your paper, either embedded or available via links: pictures, illustrations, videos, audio files and software. We also encourage links to code repositories. Submitted works should be original, i.e. not published elsewhere and not currently under review.

Ethics Statement: We encourage authors to include an Ethics Statement at the end of their paper that shows that relevant ethics approval has been given for human research, and covers other relevant issues such as permission to use any input data for the training of AI systems. You may also include an Acknowledgement section to acknowledge any funding or support, plus any number of Appendices.

Anonymity: For double-blind review, initial paper submissions should remove authors and take reasonable efforts to conceal the identity of the authors. This includes using anonymous URLs to share any supporting material.

Music and sound art

We invite artistic submissions that deal with topics related to AI and musical creativity. We especially encourage submissions coming from a diversity of technical, non-technical, and critical angles, regarding questions of gender, ecology, performance, aesthetics and ethics. Regarding this year's conference theme, we encourage works that address or reflect on the artistic, political, ethical, and social implications of current developments with artistic means. Additionally, we are interested in submissions that challenge currently dominant concepts of intelligence in computer science, by dealing with topics such as embodied cognition, environmental awareness and liveness. 

The selected performances will be performed during the two conference concerts, which will take place in the main venue, the Musikinstrumentenmuseum, in the open performance space Folkloresaal (Wort als Link: https://www.simpk.de/ueber-uns/facilities/folkloresaal.html) seating 140 people.

Stereo amplification and mixing is provided, and multichannel setups can be provided for pieces that require them. We recommend that artists perform their own pieces or provide performers; where that is not feasible, we can find musicians in the UdK context.   

Installation works can be shown in a separate seminar space (30m2), or also in the special exhibition space within the Museum (still to be confirmed), and where suitable, in the ground floor of the museum itself. Artists are expected to bring any instruments and special equipment for their works, and take care of their setup.     

The proposed artistic works must be submitted through Microsoft CMT, as a recording (.mp3 or .mp4 in case of video, or a link to a performance or documentation) accompanied by:   

• A companion paper of 800–1000 words (excluding title, abstract, and references) using the Word or Latex templates provided here. This paper will be published in the proceedings, and should include: 

• Title

• Abstract (max 150 words)

• References to the practice field relevant to your performance

• Discussion of approaches, tools and data taken in the work process, and context, to indicate its relations to specific AI topics

• Short program notes for the concert/exhibition information

• A technical rider detailing:   

• List of contributors, with name/affiliation and a short bio for each contributor (150 words max)

• Technical equipment you will provide

• Setup details such as tables, space requirements, power, visuals, audio

• Documentation of previous performances or earlier works that demonstrate the ability to realise the proposed work

• Accessibility requirements (if applicable)  

The paper accompanying the work will be part of the conference proceedings and should be formatted using the Word or Latex templates provided here. The technical rider will only be used for organizational purposes and has no fixed template.

NOTE: Due to the constraints of the conference timing, proposed performances should be shorter than 15 minutes and should have short setup time. Complex and time-consuming setup requirements speak against acceptance.

Tutorials and Workshops

We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials. These sessions should be interactive and focus on new technologies, systems, or artistic practices. Proposals should specify the maximum number of participants, and the duration (e.g., hour, half day, full day). We strongly encourage proposals to indicate the skills, experiences, or artefacts that the participants will acquire.

The submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review, with a final joint decision of the tutorial and conference chairs, depending on the quality of the proposed activity as well as limits imposed by the conference schedule. Contributors may be requested to slightly adapt their proposals to better fit the schedule and/or organizational requirements.

Submissions should include:

A paper of 800–1000 words (excluding title, abstract, and references) using the Word or Latex templates provided here. This paper, which will be published in the proceedings, should describe the activity, including:

• Workshop or Tutorial session title

• Abstract (max 150 words)

• Review contextualizing the practice field relevant to your work

• Methods taken in developing the work

• The hands-on nature of the workshop/tutorial (i.e., how will this be distinct from a long presentation)

A technical rider detailing:

• List of contributors, with name/affiliation and a short bio for each contributor (150 words max)

• Equipment you will provide

• Equipment which you will require (including setup detail such as tables, space requirements, power, Audio/Video...)

• Proposed duration

• Any accessibility requirement

• Any other relevant documentation (e.g. web links)

The paper will be published in the proceedings and should be formatted using the Word or Latex templates provided here. The technical rider will only be used for organizational purposes and has no fixed template.

A description of the reviewing process is provided here (link to review process page).