Title

A Creative Improvisational Companion Based On Idiomatic Harmonic Bricks

Abstract

This demonstration presents an implementation of a computer-assisted approach to music generation called functional scaffolding for musical composition (FSMC) whose representation facilitates creative combination, exploration, and transformation of musical ideas and spaces. The approach is demonstrated through a program called MaestroGenesis with a convenient GUI that makes it accessible to even non-musicians. Music in FSMC is represented as a functional relationship between an existing human composition, or scaffold, and a generated accompaniment. This relationship is represented by a type of artificial neural network called a compositional pattern producing network (CPPN). A human user without any musical expertise can then explore how accompaniment can relate to the scaffold through an interactive evolutionary process akin to animal breeding.

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012

Number of Pages

155-159

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84984846902 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84984846902

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