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Interfacing manual and machine composition

  • Torsten Anders
    ,
  • Torsten Anders
    ,
  • Eduardo Reck Miranda
  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research
    ,
  • University of Plymouth
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

Computer-aided composition (CAC) is situated somewhere in the middle between manual composition and automated composition that is performed autonomously by a computer program. Computers cannot make aesthetic decisions in their own right. They can only follow orders. Aesthetic decisions are made by composers, both via the design of computer programs and by manually controlling these programs. The latter plays an important part in CAC. The composition process typically involves much emending and revising: changing how a computer program is controlled is easier and allows for a more intuitive way of working than changing the program itself. This paper argues that constraint programming is a particularly suitable programming paradigm for flexibly interfacing manual and machine composition.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 133-147

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Contemporary Music Review (Volume 28, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2009

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2009

ISSN

0749-4467

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/231832
  • Scopus: 77950771860

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