Remembering the Future : an Overview of Co-Evolution in Musical Improvisation
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Musical improvisation is driven mainly by the unconscious mind, engaging the dialogic imagination to reference the entire cultural heritage of an improvisor in a single flash. This paper introduces a case study of evolutionary computation techniques, in particular genetic co-evolution, as applied to the frequency domain using MPEG7 techniques, in order to create an artificial agent that mediates between an improvisor and her unconscious mind, to probe and unblock improvisatory action in live music performance or practice. 1. DEMONS VERSUS BOUNDED RATIONALITY “Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.”Arnold Schoenberg, “Brahms the Progressive”, 1933, in Style and idea, 1950, as quoted in Nach-
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