Automatic music composition is an enchanting field of research, inspiring both researchers and musicians. The implementation of systems that perform this task, incorporates an algorithmic part which makes decisions on which notes/sounds will be heard, when they will be heard, for how long and how loud. The intriguing part of automatic composition is the process of formulating such algorithms, i...

This paper presents an original cloud computing architecture for music composition. In this model, music applications are built by making several computer music services work together. Component services are provided by a dedicated layer in the cloud architecture called computer music as a Service (CMaaS). The specialized music services can be integrated into different applications at the same ...

Algorithmic composition was already popular before the rise of the computer. In the Renaissance, dice based composition games were popular. In such game, a composition was stitched together from different fragments, where selection and order of these fragments was decided by the roll of a dice. Then, in 1957 Hiller and Isaacson [8] were the first to make a computer generate a musical compositio...

We introduce a simple music notation system based on onomatopoeia. Although many text-based music notation systems have been proposed, most of them are cryptic and much more difficult to understand than standard graphical musical scores. Our music notation system, called the Sutoton notation, is based on onomatopoeia and note names which are easily pronounceable by humans with no extra training...

L-Systems have traditionally been used as a popular method for the modelling of spacefilling curves, biological systems and morphogenesis. In this paper, we adapt string rewriting grammars based on L-Systems into a system for music composition. Representation of pitch, duration and timbre are encoded as grammar symbols, upon which a series of re-writing rules are applied. Parametric extensions ...

This article addresses the problem of the representation and creation of sound by synthesis in the context of music composition, as seen from the computer-aided composition (CAC) perspective. An important theoretical basis of this work is the concept of computer modelling, discussed in relation to the notions of sound representation and music composition. Modelling sound as a signal is extended...

Music is known to be able to support certain aims of presentations. In addition, there are a number of approaches to automatic music composition. Thus, it is a natural consequence, to establish automatic, intention-based music composition as an additional tool for multimedia presentation systems. However, many related applications show unsatisfactory results. An explanation for this phenomenon ...

This paper considers the problem of reusing synchronization constraints for concurrent objects with asynchronous method calls. Our approach extends the Creol language with a specialized composition operator expressing synchronized merge. The use of synchronized merge allows synchronization classes to be added and combined with general purpose classes by means of multiple inheritance. The paper ...