Artificial Intelligence-Based Music as a Cultural Practice: A Socio-Anthropological Analysis of Creativity, Agency, and Algorithmic Mediation

Buky Wibawa Karya Guna; Diah Fatma Sjoraida; Soni Reffali; Agus Sukarna Dipura; Yuly Hidayah

doi:10.62775/edukasia.v5i2.2012

Authors

Buky Wibawa Karya Guna Universitas Tarunabakti
Diah Fatma Sjoraida Universitas Padjadjaran
Soni Reffali Universitas Tarunabakti
Agus Sukarna Dipura Universitas Tarunabakti
Yuly Hidayah Universitas Tarunabakti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62775/edukasia.v5i2.2012

Keywords:

artificial intelligence; music practice; human agency; machines; socio-anthropology; digital creativity

Abstract

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in music production is growing rapidly and has given rise to debates about creativity, authorship, and the role of human agents in cultural practices. While a number of previous studies have tended to highlight the technical, economic, or legal aspects of AI-based music, studies of its socio-anthropological implications are still limited. This research aims to analyze AI-generated music as a cultural practice that is at the intersection of human and machine agents. Using a qualitative socio-anthropological approach, this study applies digital ethnography and document analysis to AI music platforms, musical artifacts, and online public discussions that developed between 2022–2024. The findings show that AI-based music practices are characterized by the normalization of algorithmic sounds, increasing human-AI collaboration, unclear boundaries of authorship, the influence of algorithmic mediation on cultural visibility, as well as ambivalent listener responses. The results show that AI does not replace human creativity, but reconfigures music agencies through relational and curatorial practices shaped by the platform's infrastructure. The study concludes that AI-based music is a new socio-technical configuration in which creativity, meaning, and cultural authority are negotiated on an ongoing basis. The contribution of this research enriches the study of music anthropology, posthumanist theory, and critical discourse on cultural production in algorithmic societies.

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