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Evolutionary Music Composition

About the project

Evolutionary Music Composition (EMC) is a project exploring linear genetic programming to create pieces of music.

Project hosted open-source on GitLab.

Current collaborators

Csaba Sulyok

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RO
csaba.sulyok@gmail.com

Zalán Bodó

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RO
zbodo@cs.ubbcluj.ro

Christopher Harte

Melodient Ltd., London, UK
chris@melodient.com

Publications

  1. Sulyok, C. (2019) Towards Automated Quality Assessment Methods in Algorithmic Music Composition. In Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC),
    (accepted for publication)
    , Timisoara, RO.
  2. Sulyok, C., Harte, C., and Bodó, Z. (2019) On the Impact of Domain-specific Knowledge in Evolutionary Music Composition In Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Prague, CZ.
  3. Sulyok, C., McPherson, A., and Harte, C. (2019) Evolving the Process of a Virtual Composer. Natural Computing, volume 18, issue 1, pages 47-60. [Springer Netherlands]
  4. Sulyok, C. (2018) Genetic Operators for Evolutionary Music Composition. In Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), pages 253-259, Timisoara, RO. [PDF]
  5. Sulyok, C., and Harte, C. (2017) On Virtual Machine Architectures in Evolutionary Music Composition. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), pages 577-584, Lyon, FR. [MIT Press] [PDF] [Poster]
  6. Sulyok, C. (2015). Evolutionary Music Composition. (MSc. thesis) [PDF]
  7. Sulyok, C., McPherson, A., and Harte, C. (2015) Corpus-taught Evolutionary Music Composition. In Proceedings of the 13th European conference on artificial life (ECAL), pages 587-594, York, UK. [MIT Press] [PDF]