Research Seminars
Automatic Music Improvisation Interacting with a Multi-Swarm
Dr. Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College
This presentation demonstrates the improvisational system Swarm
Music, and shows how humans may collaborate with a music-making
colony of swarms. In a multi-swarm, independent swarms interact
indirectly - each swarm modifies its near environment, leaving attractors
for the other swarms. This is analogous to natural stigmergy. The
evolution of the multi-swarm as a whole can therefore be guided
(i.e. by humans) by the suitable placement of attractors. In an
improvisational system all solutions found by the population are
relevant - in fact none can be discarded. An external agent must
therefore assess quality (fitness) on the fly (no pun intended),
and interact accordingly with the multi-swarm.
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