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  title info:
    title: Evolutionary Computer Music
  name:
    name part: Miranda, Eduardo Reck.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Biles, John Al.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 259 p. 97 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 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. Eduardo Reck Miranda is a Professor in Computer Music at the University of Plymouth, UK, where he heads the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR). He has recently been appointed the Edgard Varèse Guest Professor of Computer Music at the Technical University of Berlin. Al Biles is a Professor and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Information Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Between performances with GenJam over the last thirteen years, he has been ac…
  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.
  note: edited by Eduardo Reck Miranda, John Al Biles.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Music
  subject:
    topic: Multimedia information systems
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Application software
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Multimedia Information Systems
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  subject:
    topic: Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
  subject:
    topic: Music
  classification: QA76.575
  classification: 006.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-600-1
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