Research Seminars

At the Crossroads of Evolutionary Computation and Music

Eduardo Miranda, Future Music Lab, University of Plymouth

Wed 23 March 2005, 4pm, Room 105

Abstract

Evolutionary Computation (EC) may have varied applications in Music. This paper introduces three approaches to using EC in Music (namely, engineering, creative and musicological approaches) and discusses examples of representative systems that have been developed within the last decade, with emphasis on more recent and innovative works. We begin by reviewing engineering applications of EC in Music Technology such as Genetic Algorithms and Cellular Automata sound synthesis, followed by an introduction to applications where EC has been used to generate musical compositions. Next, we introduce ongoing research into EC models to study the evolution of music and detail our own research work on modelling the evolution of melody in an artificial society.