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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Creating a Digital Mirror of Creative Practice

Author : Colin G. Johnson

Published in: Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper describes an ongoing project to create a “digital mirror” to my practice as a composer of contemporary classical music; that is, a system that takes descriptions (in code) of aspects of that practice, and reflects them back as computer-generated realisations. The paper describes the design process of this system, explains how it is implemented, and gives some examples of the material that it generates. The paper further discusses some broader issues about the technological approach to building creative systems, in particular the advantages and disadvantages of building bespoke algorithms for generating creative content vs. the use of optimisation or learning from examples.

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Metadata
Title
Creating a Digital Mirror of Creative Practice
Author
Colin G. Johnson
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-72913-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-72914-1

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72914-1_28

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