The June 2025 Issue of MusicaIQ is Now Live!
MusicaIQ Issue 04 – Intelligence Reimagined: AI, Music, and the Future of Creative Practice
What happens when machines begin to co-compose, interpret, or even feel music?
This issue explores the deep intersections between artificial intelligence and human musicality — asking not just how AI works, but how it reshapes our definitions of creativity, emotion, pedagogy, and performance.
In this issue:
• From the Editor: Dr. Antonella Di Giulio reflects on AI as an extension of human intelligence — not a replacement.
• “Beyond the Machine” — A semiotic framework for Custom GPTs in music and education
• “Can AI Feel Music?” — Emotion modeling and the ethics of affective computation
• “Compositional Practice” — Enactivism and generative systems as creative resistance
• “Generating Contextual Spaces” — New models for musical distance using AI embeddings
• Book Review: Mood Machine — Liz Pelly on Spotify, ambient conformity, and the politics of passive listening
• Plus: Music Humor, Reading Recommendations, and an invitation to collaborate
MusicaIQ continues to challenge binary thinking in music and technology, inviting musicians, educators, scholars, and technologists to step into a more complex, collaborative, and human-centered vision of intelligence.
