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Musical Mirrors: The LLM as Sounding Board in Songwriting
arXiv:2608.13944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper examines a use of AI in creative practice as an interpretive sounding board for human-generated material, rather than the more familiar pat
arXiv:2608.13944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper examines a use of AI in creative practice as an interpretive sounding board for human-generated material, rather than the more familiar pattern of AI generation followed by human curation. Through the lens of resonance as theorized by Hartmut Rosa, I present a first-person case study of songwriting from July 2025 to March 2026, drawing on 16 original pieces in English, French, and other languages along with piano solos. I describe a configuration in which resonance is not located between user and model, but in the author's deepening contact with their own material, mediated through the model. This kind of resonance was supported rather than inhibited by AI when sounding-board behavior was cultivated through sustained calibration by the user. Two failure modes appeared when calibration was absent: sycophantic drift and magical overinterpretation. This account suggests both the potential and the risks of AI as an interpretive partner in creative practice.
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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-08-17