@inproceedings{9ed975821d364b0a9a330632389cc4f3,
title = "Generating a complete multipart musical composition from a single monophonic melody with functional scaffolding",
abstract = "This paper advances the state of the art for a computer-assisted approach to music generation called functional scaffolding for musical composition (FSMC), whose representation facilitates creative combination, exploration, and transformation of musical concepts. Music in FSMC is represented as a functional relationship between an existing human composition, or scaffold, and a generated accompaniment. This relationship is encoded by a type of artificial neural network called a compositional pattern producing network (CPPN). A human user without any musical expertise can then explore how accompaniment should relate to the scaffold through an interactive evolutionary process akin to animal breeding. While the power of such a functional representation has previously been shown to constrain the search to plausible accompaniments, this study goes further by showing that the user can tailor complete multipart arrangements from only a single original monophonic track provided by the user, thus enabling creativity without the need for musical expertise.",
author = "Hoover, {Amy K.} and Szerlip, {Paul A.} and Norton, {Marie E.} and Brindle, {Trevor A.} and Zachary Merritt and Stanley, {Kenneth O.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant no. IIS-1002507 and also by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.; 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012 ; Conference date: 30-05-2012 Through 01-06-2012",
year = "2012",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012",
publisher = "University College Dublin",
pages = "111--118",
editor = "Dan Ventura and Maher, {Mary Lou} and Alison Pease and Kristian Hammond and {Perez y Perez}, Rafael and Geraint Wiggins",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012",
}