You've probably heard music composed by a computer algorithm, though you may not realize it. Artificial intelligence researchers have made huge gains in computational – or algorithmic – creativity ...

Earlier this year I discovered Jonatan Liljedahl's AlgoScore, a Csound-based program for sound and music composition. Alas, at that time I was unable to run AlgoScore on the machines here at Studio ...

Interactive media such as video games rely heavily on music to create an immersive atmosphere, providing deeper emotional impact, and serving as a feedback mechanism for the player’s actions, letting ...

Computer Music Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 8-23 (16 pages) This article presents Autocousmatic, an algorithmic system that creates electroacoustic art music using machine-listening ...

Do you think you can tell a piece of music composed by artificial intelligence (AI) from one created by a human composer? Before you read any further, let’s find out. The following audio consists of ...

The Illiac Suite was the first substantial musical composition made through a computer program. It was generated in 1956 by Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson, University professors in chemistry.

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...