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Exploring Rhythmic Automata

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Abstract. The use of Cellular Automata (CA) for musical purposes has a rich history. In general the mapping of CA states to note-level music representations has focused on pitch mapping and downplayed rhythm. This paper reports experiments in the application of one-dimensional cellular automata to the generation and evolution of rhythmic patterns. A selection of CA tendencies are identified that can be used as compositional tools to control the rhythmic coherence of monophonic passages and the polyphonic texture of musical works in broad-brush, rather than precisely deterministic, ways. This will provide the composer and researcher with a clearer understanding of the useful application of CAs for generative music.

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  1. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4059, Australia

    Andrew R. Brown

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  1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 8AS, Edinburgh, UK

    David Wolfe Corne

  5. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  6. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

    Yaochu Jin

  7. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  8. ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  9. Universidade de A Coruña, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  10. School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, UEA Norwich, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  11. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

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Brown, A.R. (2005). Exploring Rhythmic Automata. In: Rothlauf, F., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3449. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32003-6_57

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