MaestroGenesis: Computer-assisted musical accompaniment generation

Paul A. Szerlip; Amy Hoover; Kenneth O. Stanley

MaestroGenesis: Computer-assisted musical accompaniment generation

Paul A. Szerlip, Amy Hoover, Kenneth O. Stanley

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Abstract

This demonstration presents an implementation of a computer-assisted approach to music generation called functional scaffolding for musical composition (FSMC) whose representation facilitates creative combination, exploration, and transformation of musical ideas and spaces. The approach is demonstrated through a program called MaestroGenesis with a convenient GUI that makes it accessible to even non-musicians. Music in FSMC is represented as a functional relationship between an existing human composition, or scaffold, and a generated accompaniment. This relationship is represented 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 can relate to the scaffold through an interactive evolutionary process akin to animal breeding.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012
Publisher	University College Dublin
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781905254668
State	Published - Jan 1 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: May 30 2012 → Jun 1 2012

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Other	3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	5/30/12 → 6/1/12

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Computational Theory and Mathematics

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