Musical Mirrors: The LLM as Sounding Board in Songwriting

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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 co