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Computer Music and Digital Audio Series
Experiments in Musical Intelligence
David
Cope
| DAS 12 | ISBN 0-89579-337-7 | (1996) xiv + 263 pp. | Out of print |
| ISBN 978-0-89579-337-9 (13-digit) | Includes CD-ROM (Mac) |
In twenty years of working in artificial intelligence, I have seen nothing more thought-provoking than David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence. What is the essence of musical style, indeed of music itself? Can great new music emerge from the extraction and recombination of patterns in earlier music? Are the deepest of human emotions triggerable by computed patterns of notes? This lovingly written book about a deeply held vision of musical creativity should, I think, earn its place as one of the most significant adventures of the late twentieth century.
Douglas Hofstadter
Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
This book takes further the ideas Cope described in Computers and Musical Style (DAS 6).
- Contents
Background and Overview
The Analysis Component
The Pattern-Matching Component
The Object System
The ATN Component
An Application-Level Program and Sample Output
Conclusions and the Future