Improvised Music with Swarms

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  • T. M. Blackwell
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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.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001