Voices of Artificial Life: On Making Music with Computer Models of Nature

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Abstract

We are investigating the potential of artificial life (Alife) models for composition and evolutionary musicology. This paper begins with a brief introduction to our research scenario and then revisits two systems of our own design that use cellular automata to control a sound synthesiser and to generate musical passages: Chaosynth and CAMUS. Next, we introduce a discussion on the potential and limitations of these two systems. Then, we present a new paradigm for Alife in music inspired by the notion of adaptive distributed-agent systems. We demonstrate how a small community of agents furnished with a voice synthesiser, a hearing system and a memory mechanism can evolve a shared repertoire of melodic patterns from scratch, after a period of spontaneous creation, adjustment and memory reinforcement.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)553-560
Number of pages0
JournalInternational Computer Music Conference, ICMC Proceedings
Volume0
Issue number0
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2002

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