Musical Machines: Driving Algorithmic Composition with Chaotic Equations - Softcover

Continanza, Christopher

 
9783639209006: Musical Machines: Driving Algorithmic Composition with Chaotic Equations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3639209001 ISBN 13: 9783639209006
Publisher: VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Will computers compose music? They already do. This monograph presents a survey of current computational techniques for machine musicianship: composition, improvisation, and performance. It then presents the design of a composing agent that uses chaotic equations to derive a melody line, with source code included. The agent uses the chaotic equations to build a meta-structure, called an event tree, to generate the melody. I then create experiment attempting to quantify the musical difference between the agent and an agent that does not use an event tree. I employ 4 different non-linear dynamic systems with chaotic orbits as the basis of the experiment, which are used to generate control and experiment melodies. The musical output of each run is then analyzed in 4 dimensions: absolute pitch frequency, average pitch change, average rhythm change, and key/scale position.

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About the Author

Christopher Continanza holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.A. in Honors Liberal Arts from Villanova University. He also holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Villanova University. His research concentrations include Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

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Publisher
VDM Verlag
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3639209001
ISBN 13 
9783639209006
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
96