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View article: The Rarity of Musical Audio Signals Within the Space of Possible Audio Generation
The Rarity of Musical Audio Signals Within the Space of Possible Audio Generation Open
A white noise signal can access any possible configuration of values, though statistically over many samples tends to a uniform spectral distribution, and is highly unlikely to produce intelligible sound. But how unlikely? The probability …
View article: MusAIcology: AI Music and the Need for a New Kind of Music Studies
MusAIcology: AI Music and the Need for a New Kind of Music Studies Open
As music generated using artificial intelligence ({\em AI music})becomes more prevalent -- originating not only from individualsbut also services or businesses centered around scalable content generation --the need to study it and its impa…
View article: AI Music Studies : Preparing for the Coming Flood
AI Music Studies : Preparing for the Coming Flood Open
As music generated using artificial intelligence (AI music) becomes more prevalent — originating not only from individuals but also commercial services — the need to study it and its impacts becomes important. How can this material and its…
View article: Visualisation of live code
Visualisation of live code Open
In this paper we outline the issues surrounding live coding which is projected for an audience, and in this context, approaches to code visualisation. This includes natural language parsing techniques, using geometrical properties of space…
View article: OK Computer Analysis: An Audio Corpus Study of Radiohead
OK Computer Analysis: An Audio Corpus Study of Radiohead Open
The application of music information retrieval techniques in popular music studies has great promise. In the present work, a corpus of Radiohead songs across their career from 1992 to 2017 are subjected to automated audio analysis. We exam…
View article: The Beyond the Fence Musical and Computer Says Show Documentary
The Beyond the Fence Musical and Computer Says Show Documentary Open
During 2015 and early 2016, the cultural application of Computational Creativity research and practice took a big leap forward, with a project where multiple computational systems were used to provide advice and material for a new musical …
View article: Analyzing the Climate Change Potential of Residential Steel Buildings in New Zealand and Their Alignment in Meeting the 2050 Paris Agreement Targets
Analyzing the Climate Change Potential of Residential Steel Buildings in New Zealand and Their Alignment in Meeting the 2050 Paris Agreement Targets Open
This research undertakes a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to determine the climate change potential of a typical newly built steel detached dwelling in Palmerston North, New Zealand (NZ) and assesses its results concerning the 2 °C and 1.5 °C 2…
View article: Filling typed holes with live GUIs
Filling typed holes with live GUIs Open
Text editing is powerful, but some types of expressions are more naturally represented and manipulated graphically. Examples include expressions that compute colors, music, animations, tabular data, plots, diagrams, and other domain-specif…
View article: Virtual Reality and Audiovisual Experience in the AudioVirtualizer
Virtual Reality and Audiovisual Experience in the AudioVirtualizer Open
INTRODUCTION: Virtual Reality (VR) provides new possibilities for interaction, immersiveness, and audiovisual combination, potentially facilitating novel aesthetic experiences. OBJECTIVES: In this project we created a VR AudioVirtualizer a…
View article: Program Synthesis with Live Bidirectional Evaluation
Program Synthesis with Live Bidirectional Evaluation Open
We present an algorithm for completing program sketches (partial programs, with holes), in which evaluation and example-based synthesis are interleaved until the program is complete and produces a value. Our approach combines and extends r…
View article: EmoteControl
EmoteControl Open
Numerous computer systems have been designed for music emotion research, aiming to identify how different structural and expressive cues of a musical piece affect the emotion conveyed by the music and perceived by the listener. However, mo…
View article: A javascript musical machine listening library.
A javascript musical machine listening library. Open
More advanced interactive web browser based computer
\nmusic applications are supported through a new javascript
\nlibrary for musical machine listening, MMLL. The
\nlibrary includes such facilities as beat tracking, pitch
\ntracking, onse…
View article: Sonification of the Riemann Zeta Function
Sonification of the Riemann Zeta Function Open
The Riemann zeta function is one of the great wonders of mathematics, with a deep and still not fully solved connection to the prime numbers. It is defined via an infinite sum analogous to Fourier additive synthesis, and can be calculated …
View article: “… there is no reason why it should ever stop”: Large-scale algorithmic composition
“… there is no reason why it should ever stop”: Large-scale algorithmic composition Open
This article surveys some new directions in algorithmic composition, with a special focus on the mass scale of content generation now within reach. Interest in algorithmic composition has recently flourished, including a fashion for deep l…
View article: Machine learning research that matters for music creation: A case study
Machine learning research that matters for music creation: A case study Open
Research applying machine learning to music modeling and generation typically proposes model architectures, training methods and datasets, and gauges system performance using quantitative measures like sequence likelihoods and/or qualitati…
View article: Origins of Algorithmic Thinking in Music
Origins of Algorithmic Thinking in Music Open
Musicians’ relationships with algorithms have deep precedents in the confluence of music and mathematics across millennia and across cultures. Technological and musico-mathematical precedents in the ancient world predate the Arabic etymolo…
View article: A New Curated Corpus of Historical Electronic Music: Collation, Data and Research Findings
A New Curated Corpus of Historical Electronic Music: Collation, Data and Research Findings Open
A corpus of 1878 recorded works of historic electronic music from 1950–1999 has been collated. This novel data set empowers chronological study of variation over time, and the answering of research questions based on associated annotated m…
View article: Corposing a History of Electronic Music
Corposing a History of Electronic Music Open
A current research project led by the author has collated nearly 2,000 historic electronic music works for the purposes of musicology; nonetheless, this collection is highly amenable to composition. New pieces can be realized by rendering …
View article: Towards Machine Musicians Who Have Listened to More Music Than Us
Towards Machine Musicians Who Have Listened to More Music Than Us Open
Databases of audio can form the basis for new algorithmic critic systems, applying techniques from the growing field of music information retrieval to meta-creation in algorithmic composition and interactive music systems. In this article,…
View article: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Formula: Algorithmic Composition for Musical Theater
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Formula: Algorithmic Composition for Musical Theater Open
Algorithmic composition methods must prove themselves within real-world musical contexts to more firmly solidify their adoption in musical practice. The present project is an automatic composing program trained on a corpus of songs from mu…
View article: Live coding and teaching SuperCollider
Live coding and teaching SuperCollider Open
SuperCollider (SC) is a highly customizable programming language for music; live coding is the dynamic rewriting of a computer program as a concert or exploratory act. Learning sessions on SC can make ready use of live coding techniques, w…