Evolutionary computer music / Eduardo Reck Miranda and John Al Biles (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miranda, Eduardo Reck, 1963-

Biles, Al.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer composition (Music).

Evolutionary computation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 259 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

London : Springer, [2007]

Summary:

The evolutionary computation approach to music is an exciting new development for composers and musicologists alike. For composers, it provides an innovative and natural means for generating musical ideas from specifiable set of primitive components and processes. For musicologists, these techniques are used to model the cultural transmission and change of a population's body of musical ideas over time. In both cases, musical evolution can be guided by a variety of constraints and tendencies built into the system, such as realistic psychological factors that influence the way music is expressed, experienced, learned, stored, modified, and passed on among individuals.

This book discusses not only the applications of evolutionary computation to music, but also the tools needed to create and study such systems. These tools are drawn in part from research into the origins and evolution of biological organisms, ecologies, and cultural systems on the one hand, and from computer simulation methodologies on the other. They can be combined to create surrogate artificial worlds populated by interacting simulated organisms in which complex musical experiments can be performed that would otherwise be impossible. This authoritative book, with contributions from experts from around the globe, demonstrates that evolutionary systems can be used to create and to study musical compositions and cultures in ways that have never before been achieved.

Contents:

2 Evolutionary Computation for Musical Tasks / John A. Biles 28

3 Evolution in Digital Audio Technology / Andrew Horner 52

4 Evolution in Creative Sound Design / Palle Dahlstedt 79

5 Experiments in Generative Musical Performance with a Genetic Algorithm / Qijun Zhang, Eduardo R. Miranda 100

6 Composing with Genetic Algorithms: GenDash / Rodney Waschka II 117

7 Improvizing with Genetic Algorithms: GenJam / John A. Biles 137

8 Cellular Automata Music: From Sound Synthesis to Musical Forms / Eduardo R. Miranda 170

9 Swarming and Music / Tim Blackwell 194

10 Computational Evolutionary Musicology / Eduardo R. Miranda, Peter M. Todd 218

Appendix The Accompanying Music CD 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846285998

1846285992

OCLC:

80332658