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Towards a Prehistory of Evolutionary and Adaptive Computation in Music

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A number of systems have been created which apply genetic algorithms, cellular automata, artificial life, agents, and other evolutionary and adaptive computation ideas in the creation of music. The aim of this paper is to examine the context in which such systems arose by looking for features of experimental music which prefigure the ideas used in such systems. A number of ideas are explored: the use of randomness in music, the view of compositions as parameterized systems, the idea of emergent structure in music and the idea of musicians performing the role of reactive agents.

See e.g. http://www.generativeart.com/, http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~iterate, http://galileo.cincom.unical.it/esg/Music/ALMMAII/almmaII.htm and http://www.tic.udc.es/~jj/gavam/

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  1. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, Kent, England

    Colin G. Johnson

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  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/a, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Stefano Cagnoni

  2. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  3. Dept. of Information and Communications Technologies Faculty of Computer Science, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, CP 15071, Spain

    Juan J. Romero Cardalda

  4. Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  5. Schol of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, PO Box 225, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK

    David W. Corne

  6. AnimatLab, 8 rue du capitaine Scott, 75015, Paris, France

    Jean-Arcady Meyer  & Agnès Guillot  & 

  7. SAP AG, Neurottstrasse 16, 69190, Walldorf, Germany

    Jens Gottlieb

  8. Parallel Computing and Complex Systems Group, University of Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10/11, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

    Martin Middendorf

  9. Algorithms and Data Structures Group Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 9-11/186, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Günther R. Raidl

  10. School of Computing, Napier University, 219 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ, UK

    Emma Hart

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Johnson, C.G. (2003). Towards a Prehistory of Evolutionary and Adaptive Computation in Music. In: Cagnoni, S., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36605-9_46

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