Generative music
Theory
There are four primary perspectives on Generative Music (Wooller, R. et al., 2005)(reproduced with permission):
Linguistic/Structural
Music composed from analytic theories that are so explicit as to be able to generate structurally coherent material (Loy and Abbott 1985; Cope 1991). This perspective has its roots in the generative grammars of language (Chomsky 1956) and music (Lerdahl and Jackendoff 1983), which generate material with a recursive tree structure.
Interactive/Behavioural
Music generated by a system component that ostensibly has no inputs. That is, ‘not transformational’ (Rowe 1991; Lippe 1997:34; Winkler 1998). Brian Eno’s Generative Music 1 is an example of this.
Creative/Procedural
Music generated by processes that are designed and/or initiated by the composer. Steve Reich’s It’s Gonna Rain and Terry Riley’s In C are examples of this (Eno 1996).
Biological/Emergent
Non-deterministic music (Biles 2002), or music that cannot be repeated, for example, ordinary wind chimes (Dorin 2001). This perspective comes from the broader generative art movement. This revolves around the idea that music, or sounds may be ‘generated’ by a musician ‘farming’ parameters within an ecology, such that the ecology will perpetually produce different variation based on the parameters and algorithms used[citation needed].
Software
Many software programs have been written to create generative music, including:
Nodal (2007-present), a graph-based generative composition system for real-time MIDI sequence generation (for Mac OS X and Windows)
Intermorphic’s Mixtikl (2004-present), a portable generative music and loop mixing system with variants for: iPhone / iPod Touch, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows Mobile as well as a web browser Plugin, and VST plugin and Au Plugin for desktop music sequencers. Mixtikl also includes embedded Noatikl and the Partikl engines.
Bloom developed 2008 by Peter Chilvers together with Brian Eno for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Intermorphic’s Noatikl (2007-present). Noatikl was launched in 2007 as a replacement for the no-longer-available Koan.
SSEYO Koan Pro (1994-2007), used by Brian Eno to create his hybrid album ‘Generative Music 1’. intermorphic acquired the Koan technology in 2008. Noatikl is described by Intermorphic as “The Evolution of Koan”.
Karlheinz Essl’s sound environments fLOW (1998-2004) and SEELEWASCHEN (2004)
MusiGenesis (2005), a program that evolves music.
Lauri Grhn has developed Synesthesia software that generates music (midi file) from any photos in a few seconds.
Many algorithmic music projects are also considered to be generative (see algorithmic.net for some of them).
Modern generative music games such as Rez have been considered generative in character.
Sergio Maltagliati generative music software .
Kepler’s Orrery, an interactive gravity simulator that generates music, developed in 2007 as an open-source Java project and ported to the iPhone in 2009.
Intermorphic’s Noatikl, a “trans-generative” music engine by Peter and Tim Cole
Other Notes
Brian Eno, who coined the term ‘Generative Music’, has used generative techniques on many of his works, starting with Discreet Music (1975) up to and including (according to Sound on Sound Oct 2005) his latest album ‘Another Day on Earth’. His works, lectures, and interviews on the subject have done much to promote generative music in the avant-garde music community. Eno used SSEYO’s Koan generative music system (created by Pete Cole and Tim Cole of intermorphic), to create his hybrid album Generative Music 1 (published by SSEYO and Opal Arts in April 1996), which is probably his first public use of the term “Generative Music”.
Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s publication described a generative grammar for homophonic tonal music, based partially on a Schenkerian model. While originally intended for analysis, significant research into automation of this process in software is being carried out by Keiji Hirata and others.
In It’s Gonna Rain, an early work by contemporary composer Steve Reich, overlapping tape loops of the spoken phrase “it’s gonna rain” are played at slightly different speeds, generating different patterns through phasing.
See also
Computer-generated music
Algorithmic composition
Interactive music
Cellular automaton
References
^ Artscape – Brian Eno In Conversation 2009(video)
Biles, A. 2002a. GenJam in Transition: from Genetic Jammer to Generative Jammer. In International Conference on Generative Art, Milan, Italy.
Chomsky, N. 1956. Three models for the description of language. IRE Transcripts on Information Theory, 2: 113-124.
Collins, N. 2008. The analysis of generative music programs. Organised Sound, 13(3): 237248.
Cope, D. 1991. Computers and musical style. Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions.
Dorin, A. 2001. Generative processes and the electronic arts. Organised Sound, 6 (1): 47-53.
Eno, B. 1996. Generative Music. http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/eno1.html (accessed 26 February 2009).
Essl, K. 2002. Generative Music. http://www.essl.at/bibliogr/generative-music.html (accessed 26 February 2009).
Intermorphic Limited History of Noatikl, Koan and SSEYO (accessed 26 February 2009).
Lerdahl, F. and R. Jackendoff. 1982. A generative theory of tonal music. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Lippe, C. 1997. Music for piano and computer: A description. Information Processing Society of Japa SIG Notes, 97 (122): 33-38.
Loy, G. and C. Abbott. 1985. Programming languages for computer music synthesis, performance and composition. ACM Computing Surveys, 17 (2): 235-265.
Rowe, R. 1991. Machine Learning and Composing: Making Sense of Music with Cooperating Real-Time Agents. Thesis from Media Lab. Mass.: MIT.
Winkler, T. 1998. Composing Interactive Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Wooller, R., et al. A framework for comparing algorithmic music systems. In: Symposium on Generative Arts Practice (GAP). 2005. University of Western Sydney.
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