EarSketch is a STEAM learning intervention that combines a programming environment and API for Python and JavaScript, a digital audio workstation, an audio loop library, and a standards-aligned curriculum to teach introductory computer science together with music technology and composition. It seeks to address the imbalance in contemporary society between participation in music-making and music...

Specter combines music information retrieval (MIR) with sound spatialization to provide a simple, yet versatile environment to experiment with sound spatialization for music composition and live performance. Through various interfaces and sensors, users may position sounds at arbitrary locations and trajectories in a three-dimensional plane. The system utilizes the JythonMusic environment for s...

In this paper, we describe the use of genetic algorithms in composing original music in an evolutionary fashion. We also discuss plans to use the music in smart houses and in music therapy. The music is evolved starting with any given subset of the twelve musical notes. The compositions grow in duration with every generation. In the current version of the software, the fitness of any generation...

Automatic music composition has been a challenging, interesting, and yet still much to be explored task primarily because it is hard to distinguish which song is good or bad which significantly impedes the automated composition process. Despite this difficulty, automated music composition would benefit many groups of people who ought to use a piece of their own music, as composed for them by an...

We present a new system for music composition using structured sequences. FrameWorks has been developed on the basis of Task Analysis research studying composition processes and other user-centred design techniques. While the program only uses MIDI information, it can be seen as a ‘proof of concept’ for ideas generally applicable to the specification and manipulation of other music control data...

Despite the ubiquity of dancing and synchronized movement to music, relatively few studies have examined cognitive representations of musical rhythm and meter among listeners from contrasting cultures. We aimed to disentangle the contributions of culture-general and culture-specific influences by examining American and Turkish listeners' detection of temporal disruptions (varying in size from 5...

Music composition can be a challenge for many smallto medium-sized game companies, largely due to the expense and difficulty in creating original music for each level of a game. To address this, we developed a tool that automatically generates original music, by training a music generator on pieces whose style the game designer wishes to imitate. The generator then creates original music in tha...

‘The Planets’ combines a novel approach for algorithmic composition with new human-computer interaction paradigms and realistic painting techniques. The main inspiration for it was the composition ‘The Planets’ from Gustav Holst who portrayed each planet in our solar system with music. Our application allows to interactively compose music in real-time by arranging planet constellations on an in...