Algorithmic composition is the partial or total automation of the process of music composition
by using computers. Since the 1950s, different computational techniques related to Artificial …

This article chronicles computer programs for automated musical composition over the last
30 years, providing musical examples from 11 computer-composed works. The author …

Techniques for Algorithmic Composition of Music Page 1 Techniques for Algorithmic
Composition of Music Adam Alpern Hampshire College aalpern@hampshire.edu Fall, 1995 …

Modern Science is finding new methods of looking at biological, physical or social
phenomena. Traditional methods of quantification are no longer sufficient and new …

Can machines compose music? Is composition an artistic act of inspired creation beyond the
scope of current technology or is it amenable to some form of computer contribution? This …

Both the graphical images and the musical scores, which are derived from iterated functions
systems, are based-to be precise-not on the attractors of the systems, but rather on the …

My computer music composition, Profile, was made at the Center for Computer Music at
Brooklyn College in the fall of 1984 and received its premiere concert performance at the …

Self-similarity, a concept taken from mathematics, is gradually becoming a keyword in
musicology. Although a polysemic term, self-similarity often refers to the multi-scalar feature …

The widely‐known claim of Voss and Clarke (1978) that much music is well modelled by “1/ƒ
noise” is critically examined. Some new data are provided for classical music, yielding …

It has been demonstrated that there is a geometrical order in text structures. Fractal
geometry, as a modern mathematical approach and a new geometrical standpoint on …