TY - GEN
T1 - MetaCompose: A Compositional Evolutionary Music Composer
AU - Scirea, Marco
AU - Togelius, Julian
AU - Eklund, Peter
AU - Risi, Sebastian
PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - This paper describes a compositional, extensible framework for music composition and a user study to systematically evaluate its core components. These components include a graph traversal-based chord sequence generator, a search-based melody generator and a pattern-based accompaniment generator. An important contribution of this paper is the melody generator which uses a novel evolutionary technique combining FI-2POP and multi-objective optimization. A participant-based evaluation overwhelmingly confirms that all current components of the framework combine effectively to create harmonious, pleasant and interesting compositions.
AB - This paper describes a compositional, extensible framework for music composition and a user study to systematically evaluate its core components. These components include a graph traversal-based chord sequence generator, a search-based melody generator and a pattern-based accompaniment generator. An important contribution of this paper is the melody generator which uses a novel evolutionary technique combining FI-2POP and multi-objective optimization. A participant-based evaluation overwhelmingly confirms that all current components of the framework combine effectively to create harmonious, pleasant and interesting compositions.
KW - Compositional Framework
KW - Music Composition
KW - Graph Traversal-Based Generator
KW - Evolutionary Technique
KW - Multi-Objective Optimization
KW - Compositional Framework
KW - Music Composition
KW - Graph Traversal-Based Generator
KW - Evolutionary Technique
KW - Multi-Objective Optimization
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-31008-4_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-31008-4_14
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-3-319-31007-7
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 202
EP - 217
BT - Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
PB - Springer
ER -