Can a Machine Be Creative? A Musician’s Conversation with AI
Musician Craig Scott builds a guitar that plays with him. Hear how humans and machines can create music together in the first Cultures of AI podcast.
In the first episode of the Cultures of AI podcast, host Samborne Bush speaks with musician and sound artist Craig Scott about his human–machine hybrid guitar. Built during an artist residency with Patterns in Practice and the Pervasive Media Studio, Craig’s instrument uses machine learning to create real-time musical conversations between performer and computer. Together, they explore ideas of creativity, control, and collaboration between human and artificial intelligence.
Craig reflects on how technology can act as both an extension and a limitation, reshaping how artists create and perform. His work challenges the assumption that AI replaces human creativity, instead showing how it can open up new artistic possibilities. This episode invites listeners to consider how innovation, imperfection, and improvisation shape our relationship with intelligent machines in the arts.
Credits
- Host: Samborne Bush (Research Associate at the University of Sheffield)
- Guest: Craig Scott (Musician)
- Producer: Samborne Bush (Research Associate at the University of Sheffield)
- Edited By: Samborne Bush(Research Associate at the University of Sheffield)
- Part of the Patterns in Practice Project
- Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/T013362/1)
