Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

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5th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 -- April 1, 2016, Proceedings

Colin Johnson Vic Ciesielski João Correia Penousal Machado(Editor)

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Published on 16. March 2016

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Intro
Preface
Organization
Contents
Computer-Aided Musical Orchestration Using an Artificial Immune System
1 Introduction
2 Computer-Aided Musical Orchestration (CAMO)
2.1 Overview
2.2 Sound Database
2.3 Feature Database
2.4 Pre-processing
2.5 Representation
2.6 Combination Functions
2.7 Fitness Function
3 Immune Inspired Musical Orchestration
3.1 Opt-aiNet: An Artificial Immune System for Optimization
3.2 Phase Vocoder
3.3 Graphical Interface
4 Evaluation
5 Results and Discussion
5.1 Subjective Evaluation
5.2 Objective Evaluation
6 Conclusions and Perspectives
References
Evolving Atomic Aesthetics and Dynamics
1 Introduction
2 danceroom Spectroscopy
3 Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC)
4 Evolving Atomic Aesthetics
4.1 Representation
4.2 Evaluation and Selection
4.3 Mutation
5 Experimentation
5.1 Single-User IEC Interface
5.2 Collaborative IEC Interface
6 Conclusion
References
Augmenting Live Coding with Evolved Patterns
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
2.1 Tidal
2.2 Grammar and Parser
2.3 Evolutionary Algorithm
3 Evalutation
3.1 Is the System Generating Legal Tidal Patterns?
3.2 What Is the Relative Level of Complexity of the Generated Patterns?
3.3 How Does the Generated Audio Compare with Tidal?
3.4 How Does the Fitness of the Population Change?
4 Conclusion
4.1 On the Experience of Live Coding with Evolved Patterns
4.2 On the Need for a Quantitative Evaluation
4.3 Closing Remarks
References
Towards Adaptive Evolutionary Architecture
1 Introduction
1.1 Research Design and Goal
2 Background
2.1 Interdisciplinary Scope: Philosophy, Architecture and ALife
2.2 Interactive Evolution
3 EvoCurtain: The Evolutionary Window Curtain
3.1 Set-Up and Spatial Layout
3.2 Genetic Representation
3.3 Interactive Evolutionary Setup
4 Experiments
4.1 Genetic Experimental Parameters
5 Results
5.1 Disagreement and Reconciliation
5.2 Control and Preconceptions
5.3 Time
5.4 Interdisciplinary Perspective
6 Discussion
7 Conclusion
References
Plecto: A Low-Level Interactive Genetic Algorithm for the Evolution of Audio
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Genetic Algorithms
2.2 Creative Potential of Lower-Level Audio Engines
3 A Low-Level Audio Engine
4 Growing the Population
5 Searching the Population
5.1 Meaningful Representation of the Population
5.2 Creating GA Landscapes
5.3 Descriptive Icons
5.4 A Navigational Tool for Plecto's Scatterplot Interface
5.5 Refining Population Search
6 Conclusion
References
Correlation Between Human Aesthetic Judgement and Spatial Complexity Measure
1 Introduction
2 Informational Theories of Aesthetics
3 Spatial Complexity Measure
4 Analysis
5 Conclusions
References
Exploring the Visual Styles of Arcade Game Assets
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Procedural Content Generation
2.2 Constrained Optimization and Constrained Novelty Search
3 Methodology
3.1 Spaceship Representation
3.2 Spaceship Evolution
3.3 Spaceship Evaluation
4 Experiments
4.1 Quality of Generated Results
4.2 Diversity of Generated Results
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
References
Grammatical Music Composition with Dissimilarity Driven Hill Climbing
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Composing with Evolutionary Computation
2.2 Musical Fitness
3 Method
3.1 Grammar
3.2 Fitness Measurement
3.3 Operators
4 Experiments
4.1 Melody Shapes
4.2 Experimental Variations
5 Results
5.1 Analysis of the Operators
5.2 Melodies
5.3 Discussion
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Animating Typescript Using Aesthetically Evolved Images
1 Introduction
2 Aesthetic Evolution Basis
3 Animating Aesthetically Evolved Images
4 Mapping of Animated Functions to Typefaces
5 Compositing Animated Typefaces into Animated Typescript
6 Discussion and Conclusion
References
An Evolutionary Composer for Real-Time Background Music
1 Introduction
2 Environment and Musical States
2.1 Environment State
2.2 Musical State
3 EvoBackMusic Components
3.1 The Observer Agent
3.2 The Composer Agent
3.3 The Sound Agent
4 Evaluation Study
4.1 Methodology
4.2 Results
5 Conclusions
References
Iterative Brush Path Extraction Algorithm for Aiding Flock Brush Simulation of Stroke-Based Painterl ...
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
2.1 Stroke-Based Rendering Techniques
2.2 Brush Stroke Extraction
2.3 Flock Brush Simulation
3 Iterative Brush Stroke Path Extraction
3.1 Algorithm Overview
3.2 Implementation Aspects
4 Results and Discussions
5 Conclusion and Future Work
References
A Comparison Between Representations for Evolving Images
1 Introduction
2 Representation, Fitness Landscapes and Locality
3 Short Review of Existing Representations for Images
4 The Proposed Representations
5 Experimental Study
5.1 Test Cases
5.2 Experimental Settings
5.3 Experimental Results Obtained on the Shapes Test Case
5.4 Experimental Results Obtained on the Shaded Shapes Test Case
5.5 Experimental Results Obtained on the Yin and Yang Test Case
5.6 Experimental Results Obtained on the Shaded Yin and Yang Test Case
5.7 Experimental Results Obtained on the Lena Test Case
5.8 Experimental Results on the Locality of the Representations
5.9 Best Evolved Individuals
6 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Evolving L-Systems with Musical Notes
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 L-Systems
2.2 Evolutionary Algorithms
2.3 Musical Concepts
3 Related Work
4 System's Architecture
4.1 General Overview
4.2 Audiovisual Interpretation and Mappings
4.3 The Evolutionary Algorithm
4.4 Auxiliary Tools
5 Experimental Results and Discussion
6 Conclusion and Further Work
References
MetaCompose: A Compositional Evolutionary Music Composer
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Procedurally Generated Music
2.2 Multi-Objective Optimization
2.3 Feasible/Infeasible 2-Population Genetic Algorithm
3 MetaCompose
4 Non-dominated Sorting Feasible-Infeasible 2 Populations
5 Composition Generation
5.1 Chord Sequence Generation
5.2 Melody Generation
5.3 Accompaniment Generation
6 Experiment Design
6.1 Music Clip Generation
7 Results and Analysis
7.1 Complete Generator Against All Other Groups
7.2 Complete Generator Against Random Chord Sequence Generation
7.3 Complete Generator Against Unconstrained Melody Generation
7.4 Complete Generator Against Constrained Melody Generation
7.5 Complete Generator Against Random Accompaniment Generation
8 Conclusion and Future Work
References
'Turingalila' Visual Music on the Theme of Morphogenesis
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 The Magic of Morphogenesis
3 Creating 'Turingalila' as Visual Music
4 Conclusion: Patterns of Change
References
Fitness and Novelty in Evolutionary Art
1 Introduction
2 State of the Art
3 Proposed Algorithm
3.1 Archive Assessment
3.2 Selection Mechanism
4 Evolving Figurative Images
5 Evolving Context Free Design Grammars
6 Results
6.1 Experimental Setup
6.2 Results
7 Conclusions and Future Work
References
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