Computational aesthetic evaluation: past and future

P Galanter - Computers and creativity, 2012 - Springer
Human creativity typically includes a self-critical aspect that guides innovation towards a
productive end. This chapter offers a brief history of, and outlook for, computational aesthetic …

Experiments in computational aesthetics: An iterative approach to stylistic change in evolutionary art

P Machado, J Romero, B Manaris - The art of artificial evolution: a …, 2008 - Springer
A novel approach to the production of evolutionary art is presented. This approach is based
on the promotion of an arms race between an adaptive classifier and an evolutionary …

A comprehensive and brief survey on interactive evolutionary computation in sound and music composition for algorithmic auditory and acoustic design with human-in …

Y Pei - Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present a comprehensive survey on the topic of sound and music composition using
interactive evolutionary computation (IEC). After explaining the fundamentals of IEC and …

[PDF][PDF] Monterey mirror: combining Markov models, genetic algorithms, and power laws

B Manaris, D Hughes, Y Vassilandonakis - Proceedings of 1st Workshop …, 2011 - Citeseer
Monterey Mirror is an interactive stochastic music generator based on Markov models,
genetic algorithms, and power-law metrics for music information retrieval. It combines the …

Composing first species counterpoint with a variable neighbourhood search algorithm

D Herremans, K Sörensen - Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, a variable neighbourhood search (VNS) algorithm is developed that can
generate musical fragments consisting of a melody for the cantus firmus and the first species …

Facing the future: Evolutionary possibilities for human-machine creativity

J McCormack - The art of artificial evolution: a handbook on …, 2008 - Springer
This chapter examines the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead for evolutionary music
and art. Evolutionary computing methods have enabled new modes of creative expression …

The problem with evolutionary art is...

P Galanter - European Conference on the Applications of …, 2010 - Springer
Computational evolutionary art has been an active practice for at least 20 years. Given the
remarkable advances in that time in other realms of computing, including other forms of …

Universality in the tail of musical note rank distribution

MB del Río, G Cocho, GG Naumis - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2008 - Elsevier
Although power laws have been used to fit rank distributions in many different contexts, they
usually fail at the tails. Languages as sequences of symbols have been a popular subject for …

[PDF][PDF] Composition and arrangement techniques for music in interactive immersive environments

A Berndt, K Hartmann, N Röber, M Masuch - Audio Mostly, 2006 - Citeseer
Inspired by the dramatic and emotional effects of film music, we aim at integrating music
seamlessly into interactive immersive applications—especially in computer games. In both …

Fitness in evolutionary art and music: a taxonomy and future prospects

CG Johnson - International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2016 - inderscienceonline.com
This paper is concerned with the idea of fitness in art and music systems that are based on
evolutionary computation. A taxonomy is presented of the ways in which fitness is used in …