Evolutionary Computer Music

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 a specifiable set of primitive components and processes. For musicologists, these techniqu...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Miranda, Eduardo Reck (Editor), Biles, John Al (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • An Introduction to Evolutionary Computing for Musicians
  • Evolutionary Computation for Musical Tasks
  • Evolution in Digital Audio Technology
  • Evolution in Creative Sound Design
  • Experiments in Generative Musical Performance with a Genetic Algorithm
  • Composing with Genetic Algorithms: GenDash
  • Improvizing with Genetic Algorithms: GenJam
  • Cellular Automata Music: From Sound Synthesis to Musical Forms
  • Swarming and Music
  • Computational Evolutionary Musicology.