Improvised spot plates

Improvised Music with Swarms

This paper describes SWARMUSIC, an interactive music improviser. A particle swarm algorithm is used to generate musical material by a mapping of particle positions onto events in MIDI space. Interaction with an external musical source arises through the attraction of the particle swarm to a target. SWARMUSIC is the first application of swarm intelligence to music.

Automatic accompaniment for improvised music

Modern music students practice improvisation playing on top of a software that generates accompaniment, but it does not listen to the musician’s input. Automatic accompaniment systems provide appropriate musical accompaniment to a human player in a given musical context by listening to them. We are interested in developing an AAS. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to build a system that...

Improvised Theatre Alongside Artificial Intelligences

This study presents the first report of Artificial Improvisation, or improvisational theatre performed live, on-stage, alongside an artificial intelligence-based improvisational performer. The Artificial Improvisor is a form of artificial conversational agent, or chatbot, focused on open domain dialogue and collaborative narrative generation. Using stateof-the-art machine learning techniques sp...

Dramatic Presence in Improvised Stories

We investigate how to achieve a sense of dramatic presence (the perception of being “in” a story, playing the role of one of its characters), with the aim of building systems that can offer the same. Improvisational theatre might serve as a model for this experience, where there is no guiding plot; each of its actors shares responsibility for the collaborative emergence of a story. We describe ...

Use of plastic spot-plates for in vitro assessment of antibacterials.