It is our pleasure to announce the double special issue on Musical Metacreation recently published the ACM journal Computer in Entertainment. The double issue begins with an introduction to Musical Metacreation that covers the basic for those who are not familiar with the use of generative systems to partially or completely automate musical tasks.

The publications are available in the ACM Digital Library:

-- Special Issue on Musical Metacreation, Part I: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3024062

-- Special Issue on Musical Metacreation, Part II: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3029374

Three further articles of the special issue are available for free on the following links:

https://cie.acm.org/articles/perceptual-and-affective-evaluation-affectively... 2.

https://cie.acm.org/articles/use-interactive-genetic-algorithms-sound-design... 3.

https://cie.acm.org/articles/darwintunes-20-evolving-music-within-breeding-g...

In addition, we would like to draw your attention to the International Workshop on Musical Metacreation and the MUME Concert series. This year, the workshop and concert will be held in conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2017 http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2017/:

-- The call for participation to the MUME 2017 Workshop is available here: http://musicalmetacreation.org/workshops/mume-2017/call-for-participation/

-- The call for works for the MUME 2017 Concert is available here: http://musicalmetacreation.org/mume-2017-concert-call-for-works/