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This paper presents a simulation where a society of autonomous agents evolves a common repertoire of intonations from scratch by interacting with one another. We demonstrate by means of an example the role of social bonding for the evolution of intonation in a virtual society of simple agents furnished with a vocal synthesiser, a hearing apparatus and a simple brain capable of associating auditory information to motor control (in this case in terms of vocal synthesis control). We begin the paper with a succinct commentary on the motivation for this research, our objectives and the methodology for its realisation. Then we state the objective of the particular simulation introduced in this paper, followed by an explanation of its design and functioning, and an assessment of its results. The paper concludes with a short discussion on the importance of this research for music and its contribution to the advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
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Miranda, E.R. (2002). Mimetic Development of Intonation. In: Anagnostopoulou, C., Ferrand, M., Smaill, A. (eds) Music and Artificial Intelligence. ICMAI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2445. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45722-4_11
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