[microsound] R: [microsound] AI in microsound

[Davide Morelli <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should read

Who is Listening?
By Gregory M. Rippin

he try to build an intelligent agent in PureData for musical improvvisation
with partial success

you can download it here
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~gmr222/interactiveMusic.html

Please keep me posted, because I planned to try do something similar one of
these days!

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: david golightly [mailto:davigoli@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Inviato: lunedì 21 marzo 2005 15.11
> A: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Oggetto: [microsound] AI in microsound
>
>
> I'm starting to develop a set of AI algorithms to assist in live
> performance, which will (roughly speaking) analyze control
> messages that I
> send and, after a certain point, be able to generate their own control
> messages based on the patterns I used.  Eventually I'd like to design an
> algorithm to analyze a continuously changing audio texture on multiple
> levels and be able to reproduce similar, non-repeating textures.  I've
> started by giving my PD patch some various recordings of birdsong (of the
> eastern Wood Thrush) for analysis, hoping to tune it to be able
> to generate
> its own non-repeating woodthrush-like song.
>
> For discussion:  What AI algorithms are the most useful in microsound
> performance - in practice, not only in theory?  How many of you
> microsounders are using AI algorithms, and what have your
> experiences been?
> Ever used neural networks/second- and third-order Markov chains/genetic
> algorithms/generative grammars/other?  On what time scale
> (piece-structure,
> moment, sound-event, or microsound generation)? There was an interesting
> interview with Brian Eno back in the 1980's (with The Wire mag, I
> believe)
> where he expressed a desire for a musical "black box" that could produce
> music in a given style, a Beethoven black box, a Beatles black
> box, an Eno
> black box...  Beyond whatever proprietary concerns are involved, is this
> even achievable?  There's been a lot of talk of letting your
> laptop play a
> wave file vs. performing the music yourself, but does anyone have any
> experience teaching your computer to make desicions for you?
>
> Cf.:
> David Cope, Experiments in Musical Intelligence
> Eduardo Reck Miranda (though I find his experiments with cellular
> automata
> contrived and unconvincing)
> among others
>
> thanks,
> david
>
>
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