Subject: Re: Genetic algos (was: Welcome to...)
From: Al Biles (jab@it.rit.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 09:15:46 EST
At 6:24 PM -0500 2/8/02, cecdiscuss@concordia.ca wrote:
>James Bailey wrote:
>>Seriously, though, I seem to recall hearing something recently (i.e. in
>the last year) about sounds that have been created using genetic
>structures. Can't remember exactly how it was done, though. Anybody else
>know something about it?
>
>If you mean music created using material from real DNA, I don't know, but
>if you're thinking of music created using genetical algorithms, I'm doing
>that.
>I don't know if it was my projects you heard about, but I work a lot with
>these techniques, both for interactively breeding electronic sounds and
>structures and score fragments. I've also made societies of coevolving
>msuical agents. The genetical representation in some cases is linear
>number strings mapped to parameter sets in complex sound engines, in the
>case of score evolution I use a recursive tree structured genome that
>works very well. I have developed a few (not (yet?) released)
>applications, and I use it all the time in my own work. I have also made
>installations (one of them shown recently at the Music without walls?
>conference in Leicester, UK, soon to be shown at the Toon Festival in
>Haarlem, NL) demonstrating interactively these techniques on technoish
>material.
>
>Please see the Publications link on my homepage (below) for some papers in
>PDF.
>
>/Palle
>
>
>---------------------------------------------
>Palle Dahlstedt, composer
>palle@design.chalmers.se
>http://www.design.chalmers.se/palle
>
>Innovative Design
>Chalmers University of Technology
>Göteborg, Sweden
While we're on the subject, I'll mention GenJam, my GA-based jazz
improviser, which I've been tweaking since 1994. If you're
interested, check out http://www.it.rit.edu/~jab/GenJam.html
- Al Biles
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