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Exploiting functional relationships in musical composition

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Kenneth O. StanleyAuthors Info & Claims

Connection Science, Volume 21, Issue 2-3

Pages 227 - 251

https://doi.org/10.1080/09540090902733871

Published: 01 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The ability of gifted composers like Mozart to create complex multipart musical compositions with relative ease suggests a highly efficient mechanism for generating multiple parts simultaneously. Computational models of human music composition can potentially shed light on how such rapid creativity is possible. This article proposes such a model based on the idea that the multiple threads of a song are temporal patterns that are functionally related, which means that one instrument's sequence is a function of another's. This idea is implemented in a program called NEAT Drummer that interactively evolves a type of artificial neural network called a compositional pattern-producing network, which represents the functional relationship between the instruments and drums. The main result is that richly textured drum tracks that tightly follow the structure of the original song are easily generated because of their functional relationship to it.

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Connection Science Volume 21, Issue 2-3

Music, Brain, Cognition

June 2009

182 pages

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