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Multi Agent Estimation of Musical Preferences

This paper focuses on the problem of ”party playlist generation”, where the ultimate goal is to generate a playlist for a group based on the listening histories of a group of individuals. We design a classification system which uses both frequency data and song metadata to accurately gauge song similarity. Comparing randomly generated playlists, a purely frequency based approach, and the combin...

Ergotism: the satan loosed in Salem?

Numerous hypotheses have been devised to explain the occurrence of the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692, yet a sense of bewilderment and doubt pervades most of the historical perspectives on the subject. The physical afflictions of the accusing girls and the imagery of the testimony, therefore, is dismissed as imaginary in foundation. One avenue of understanding that has yet to be sufficiently e...

On Satan, Demons, and Daimons: An Archetypal Exploration

Satan—or the Devil, as he is alternatively known—has remained among the most popular of archetypal figures of Western civilization for more than two millennia. Evidence of strong ongoing popular interest in this imaginal figure—to say nothing of Satan’s horde of demons—can easily seen in the results of even the most cursory ad-hoc research on the World Wide Web. For example, a simple recent sea...

A Lightweight Multi-agent Musical Beat Tracking System

An Agent-based System for Robotic Musical Performance

This paper presents an agent-based architecture for robotic musical instruments that generate polyphonic rhythmic patterns that continuously evolve and develop in a musically “intelligent” manner. Agent-based software offers a new method for real-time composition that allows for complex interactions between individual voices while requiring very little user interaction or supervision. The syste...