Abstract:
The evolution of music, from random note strings to certain "pleasant" note sequences, is traced in a multi-agent computational model. A community of agents, with some mu...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
The evolution of music, from random note strings to certain "pleasant" note sequences, is traced in a multi-agent computational model. A community of agents, with some musical guidelines and expertise from different aspects, compose their own and criticize other's music to improve individual music performance. Based on common musical interest, some social structure with small world characteristics is formed up. Through adopting general rule-based system and some evolutionary mechanisms, this model introduces a realistic communication scenario and shows an optimization process following local information. It provides an instructive computational framework to study music as well as other cultural phenomena, such as language.
Published in: 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Date of Conference: 02-05 September 2005
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 12 December 2005
Print ISBN:0-7803-9363-5