TY - JOUR
T1 - The aesthetics of interactive music systems
AU - Rowe, Robert
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Computers in music have made possible new kinds of composition at the same time that they have caused upheaval in the social and cultural practice of music making. Interactive music systems have a particular place in this context in that they explore some highly specific techniques of composition at the same time that they create a novel and engaging form of interaction between humans and computers. In this essay, real-time algorithmic composition in works including improvisation are considered as well as the contrasts between interactive and tape music. The author's composition Maritime for violin and interactive music system is presented as an illustration of the aesthetic viewpoint developed.
AB - Computers in music have made possible new kinds of composition at the same time that they have caused upheaval in the social and cultural practice of music making. Interactive music systems have a particular place in this context in that they explore some highly specific techniques of composition at the same time that they create a novel and engaging form of interaction between humans and computers. In this essay, real-time algorithmic composition in works including improvisation are considered as well as the contrasts between interactive and tape music. The author's composition Maritime for violin and interactive music system is presented as an illustration of the aesthetic viewpoint developed.
KW - Algorithmic composition
KW - Improvisation
KW - Interactive music systems
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U2 - 10.1080/07494469900640361
DO - 10.1080/07494469900640361
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:61249218174
SN - 0749-4467
VL - 18
SP - 83
EP - 87
JO - Contemporary Music Review
JF - Contemporary Music Review
IS - 3
ER -