Putting some (artificial) life into models of musical creativity (2006)
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Abstract
this paper, we willdescribe three main ways of building artificial life models whose inhabitants create music not onlyfor their human listeners, but in some cases for each other as well: converting non-musical behaviorinto sound, evolving songs to meet some external critic's desires, and letting artificial musicians andtheir audiences co-evolve in their ersatz world, creating their own musical culture as they go.Using artificial life systems to create music can address a number of goals for people interested inmusical creativity. First, for music psychologists and musicologists, it offers a framework withinwhich models of human musical cognition and behavior can be built and tested in a simulated socialsetting, allowing the exploration of how melody, harmony, and rhythm may emerge through3interactions between listening and performing individuals, and of how musical cultures can be builtup through repeated such interactions over extended periods of time. Second, it can enable biologiststo explore the evolution of the underpinnings of musical behavior in populations of agents (whethersimulated humans or other animals) facing a variety of adaptive challenges. Third, for creators ofmusical tools it provides a new approach to computer-assisted creativity that can produce open-endedvariety (and can be connected with compelling images as well). And finally, for musicians it canyield a rich new source of naturally-inspired complexity to draw upon in making their own creativemusical pieces. In this chapter we will present examples of musical artificial life systems applied toa number of these goals; others await development by further inspired individuals.2. Approaches to using Alife models of interacting agents in musicTo help lay out the space of possibili...
Bibliographic entry
Todd, P. M., & Miranda, E. R. (2006). Putting some (artificial) life into models of musical creativity. In I. Deliège & G. A. Wiggins (Eds.), Musical creativity: Multidisciplinary research in theory and practice (pp. 376-395). Hove: Psychology Press.
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| Publication year | 2006 | |
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| Document type: | In book | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
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