Automatic Music Composition with AMCTIES

A wide range of approaches and techniques have been explored in attempts to build Automatic music composition (AMC) systems. However, most attempts have tended to use a single, centralized technique for the entire AMC process. This has many drawbacks. This paper proposes a solution to these drawbacks in the form of a tree-like structure made up of several interacting emergent systems. The structure which will be refered to as ”A Tree of Interacting Emergent Systems” or TIES, is a context-independent framework, applicable to many applications, including AMC. The latter is demonstrated by using TIES to implement the application AMCTIES An application capable of ”Automatic Music Composition using a Tree of Interacting Emergent Systems”. This paper would be of much interest to those in both the computer as well as music fields.