The notion of formalized music implies that a musical composition can be described in mathematical terms. In this article we explore some formal aspects of music and propose a framework for an abstract approach. In his fundamental treatise on Formalized Music [1], Iannis Xenakis shows how a musical composition can be structured on the basis of mathematical ideas. His sieves are essentially impl...

Structural music analysis is used to reveal the inner workings of a musical composition by recursively applying reductions to the music, resulting in a series of successively more abstract views of the composition. Schenkerian analysis is the most well-developed type of structural analysis, and while there is a wide body of research on the theory, there is no well-defined algorithm to perform s...

This paper describes several generations of computer music systems and the music they have enabled. It will introduce the software tools used in some of my music compositions realized in the years 1979-94 at a variety of studios using various software and hardware systems and programming languages. These tools use a wide range of compositional methods, including (among others): high-level graph...

A robot with the ability to dance in response to music could lead to novel and interesting interactions with humans. For example, such a robot could be used to augment live performances alongside human dancers. This paper describes a system enabling humanoid robots to move in synchrony with music. A small robot, the Hitec RoboNova, was initially used to develop smooth sequences of complex gestu...

Music Classification is a particular area of Computational Musicology that provides valuable insights about the evolving of composition patterns and assists in catalogue generation. The proposed work detaches from former works by classifying music based on music score information. Text Mining techniques support music score processing while Classification techniques are used in the construction ...

The Internet holds a lot of potential as a music listening, collaboration, and performance space. It has become commonplace to stream music and video of musical performance over the web. However, the goal of playing rhythmically synchronized music over long distances has remained elusive due to the latency inherent in networked communication. The farther apart two artists are from one another, ...

Throughout the history, musicians have always used music composition rules, which actually are in most cases prohibitions or constraints. The elements of music with which composers work, as well as the possible combinations of those elements, make up a huge finite set of values. The composer’s function is to select, from this big set, a subset of values, which will be arranged into a certain te...

This paper presents an approach to new method for music composition. Traditional Western music is based on priori system. In contrast, complex systems and multi agent systems give a new perspective of linking dynamic composition with bottom-up process. ”Gismo” is an application which uses multi agent system. It realizes Dynamic Composition by interactions between agents. In the style of traditi...

This position paper argues that fundamental principles that are exploited to achieve effective music generation can also shed light on the elusive question of why humans appreciate music, and which music is easiest to appreciate. In particular, we highlight the key principle behind an existing approach to assisted accompaniment generation called functional scaffolding for musical composition (F...

Music and computers are natural partners. For centuries, music theory has been closely aligned with (and an important source of inspiration for) science and mathematics. Music compositions, however, are too large and complex to model mathematically, at least in practice. For the most part, science and mathematics diverged from music composition and developed independently—but then computers cam...