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Genetic algorithms and the abc music notation language for rock music composition

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GECCO '08: Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation

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In this paper a music composition system based on genetic algorithms (GAs) will be presented. It can create multi-instrumental, guitar-orientated rock music using objective measures for its fitness functions. The output of this system is a song in the MIDI format. Along with this system, a unique conversion procedure from numerical values to the abc language (and vice versa), which allows the combination of numerical optimization with the rich expressiveness of a music description language, will be shown. The described music composition system will be further compared to other composition systems.

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Genetic algorithms and the abc music notation language for rock music composition
1. Applied computing
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    1. Performing arts
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Search methodologies
      1. Heuristic function construction

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