Distributed Musical Decision-Making in an Ensemble of Musebots: Dramatic Changes and Endings
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Eigenfeldt, Arne
Bown, Oliver
Brown, Andrew
Gifford, Toby
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2017
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A musebot is defined as a piece of software that autonomously creates music and collaborates in real time with other musebots. The specification was released early in 2015, and several developers have contributed musebots to ensembles that have been presented in North America, Australia, and Europe. This paper describes a recent code jam between the authors that resulted in four musebots co-creating a musical structure that included negotiated dynamic changes and a negotiated ending. Outcomes reported here include a demonstration of the protocol’s effectiveness across different programming environments, the establishment of ...
View more >A musebot is defined as a piece of software that autonomously creates music and collaborates in real time with other musebots. The specification was released early in 2015, and several developers have contributed musebots to ensembles that have been presented in North America, Australia, and Europe. This paper describes a recent code jam between the authors that resulted in four musebots co-creating a musical structure that included negotiated dynamic changes and a negotiated ending. Outcomes reported here include a demonstration of the protocol’s effectiveness across different programming environments, the establishment of a minimal set of parameters for effective musical interaction between the musebots, and strategies for coordination of episodic structure and conclusion.
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View more >A musebot is defined as a piece of software that autonomously creates music and collaborates in real time with other musebots. The specification was released early in 2015, and several developers have contributed musebots to ensembles that have been presented in North America, Australia, and Europe. This paper describes a recent code jam between the authors that resulted in four musebots co-creating a musical structure that included negotiated dynamic changes and a negotiated ending. Outcomes reported here include a demonstration of the protocol’s effectiveness across different programming environments, the establishment of a minimal set of parameters for effective musical interaction between the musebots, and strategies for coordination of episodic structure and conclusion.
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity: ICCC 2017
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Music technology and recording
Interactive media
Music composition and improvisation