SMUG: Scientific music generator

Marco Scirea; Gabriella A.B. Barros; Noor Shaker; Julian Togelius

SMUG: Scientific music generator

Marco Scirea, Gabriella A.B. Barros, Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius

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Abstract

Music is based on the real world. Composers use their day-to-day lives as inspiration to create rhythm and lyrics. Procedural music generators are capable of creating good quality pieces, and while some already use the world as inspiration, there is still much to be explored in this. We describe a system to generate lyrics and melodies from real-world data, in particular from academic papers. Through this we want to create a playful experience and establish a novel way of generating content (textual and musical) that could be applied to other domains, in particular to games. For melody generation, we present an approach to Markov chains evolution and briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015
Editors	Hannu Toivonen, Simon Colton, Michael Cook, Dan Ventura
Publisher	Brigham Young University
Pages	204-211
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9780842529709
State	Published - 2015
Event	6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015 - Park City, United States Duration: Jun 29 2015 → Jul 2 2015

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015

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Conference	6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Park City
Period	6/29/15 → 7/2/15

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Computational Theory and Mathematics

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Scirea, M., Barros, G. A. B., Shaker, N., & Togelius, J. (2015). SMUG: Scientific music generator. In H. Toivonen, S. Colton, M. Cook, & D. Ventura (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015 (pp. 204-211). (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015). Brigham Young University.

SMUG: Scientific music generator. / Scirea, Marco; Barros, Gabriella A.B.; Shaker, Noor et al.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015. ed. / Hannu Toivonen; Simon Colton; Michael Cook; Dan Ventura. Brigham Young University, 2015. p. 204-211 (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Scirea, M, Barros, GAB, Shaker, N & Togelius, J 2015, SMUG: Scientific music generator. in H Toivonen, S Colton, M Cook & D Ventura (eds), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015, Brigham Young University, pp. 204-211, 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015, Park City, United States, 6/29/15.

Scirea, Marco ; Barros, Gabriella A.B. ; Shaker, Noor et al. / SMUG : Scientific music generator. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015. editor / Hannu Toivonen ; Simon Colton ; Michael Cook ; Dan Ventura. Brigham Young University, 2015. pp. 204-211 (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015).

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