Flexible Generation of Musical Form: Beyond Mere Generation

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Eigenfeldt, A
Bown, O
Brown, AR
Gifford, T
Griffith University Author(s)
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2016
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Despite a long his
tory of generative practices in music, cre
a-
tion of large
-
scale form has tended to remain under direct
control of the composer. In the field of musical metacre
a-
tion, such interaction is generally perceived to be desirable,
due to the complexity of ge
n
eratin
g form, and the necessary
aesthetic decisions involved in its creation. However, the
requirements for dynamic musical generation in games, i
n-
stallations, as well as in performance, point to a need for
greater autonomy of creative systems in generating larg
e
-
scale structure. This ...
View more >Despite a long his tory of generative practices in music, cre a- tion of large - scale form has tended to remain under direct control of the composer. In the field of musical metacre a- tion, such interaction is generally perceived to be desirable, due to the complexity of ge n eratin g form, and the necessary aesthetic decisions involved in its creation. However, the requirements for dynamic musical generation in games, i n- stallations, as well as in performance, point to a need for greater autonomy of creative systems in generating larg e - scale structure. This position paper surveys the complexity of musical form and existing approaches to its generation, and posits potential methods for more computationally cre a- tive procedures to address this open problem
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View more >Despite a long his tory of generative practices in music, cre a- tion of large - scale form has tended to remain under direct control of the composer. In the field of musical metacre a- tion, such interaction is generally perceived to be desirable, due to the complexity of ge n eratin g form, and the necessary aesthetic decisions involved in its creation. However, the requirements for dynamic musical generation in games, i n- stallations, as well as in performance, point to a need for greater autonomy of creative systems in generating larg e - scale structure. This position paper surveys the complexity of musical form and existing approaches to its generation, and posits potential methods for more computationally cre a- tive procedures to address this open problem
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Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016
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Interactive media
Musicology and ethnomusicology