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Algorithmic Generation of Music Tunes for an iPhone® Game

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Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access, and Entertainment (ECLAP 2013)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 7990))

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This paper describes an algorithm employable in a game to automatically compose music tunes over a given chord progression. A key feature of our proposal is its efficiency in terms of computational power and resource occupation, which makes it usable in real time within mobile devices such as MP3 players and smart phones. Besides, music themes can be randomized, so that the cyclic repetition of the same chord sequence becomes the base for non-repetitive tunes, different as regards both their melodic contour and their rhythm. Furthermore, the complexity of the generated themes can be modified in real time by setting numeric parameters. A complete C++ implementation of the algorithm is provided.

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  1. Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale (LIM), Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39/41, I-20135, Milan, Italy

    Adriano Baratè & Luca Andrea Ludovico

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  1. Adriano Baratè
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  1. DISIT-DSI, Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, DINFO, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

    Paolo Nesi

  2. Ex Vetrerie Sciarra, Sapienza, University of Rome, Via dei Volsci, 122, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Raffaella Santucci

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Baratè, A., Ludovico, L.A. (2013). Algorithmic Generation of Music Tunes for an iPhone® Game. In: Nesi, P., Santucci, R. (eds) Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access, and Entertainment. ECLAP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7990. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40050-6_22

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