Assisted music creation with Flow Machines: towards new categories of new

This chapter reflects on about 10 years of research in AI- assisted music composition, in particular during the Flow Machines project. We reflect on the motivations for such a project, its background, its main results and impact, both technological and musical, several years after its completion. We conclude with a proposal for new categories of new, created by the many uses of AI techniques to generate novel material.Comment: This paper is a hyperlinked version of chapter 18 of the book "Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music", Eduardo Miranda ed., Springer, 2020. Accompanying website: https://www.francoispachet.fr/flow-machines-synthesis-paper/ This version corrects some typo