Users collaborate with this system to form an improvised musical ensemble. The group of human users access the software via Apple iPads, where they tap a GUI button to make musical sounds. After a predetermined set of time, the system changes the GUI to a new selection of sounds.
Music
Impro-Visor is a musical notation system that collaborates with a musician to compose music. A musician can use Impro-Visor to notate a solo, while the system can generate accompanying licks of music. Impro-Visor can also provide feedback on the composition by, for example, colouring notes that are dissonant or consonant with the harmony.
Music
LEMu generates transitions between musical scores for live electronic music. The system is designed for non-experts and includes a Morphing Table interface ‘where users manipulate blocks on a large surface to control musical morphing transitions.’
Music
This system helps a musicologist explore innovative harmonic idioms. The user chooses harmonic idioms that the system then blends (e.g. by creating transitions between cords). The system presents its harmonic blends to the user, who can evaluate and influence the next set of generated blends.
Music, Sound Engineering
GeNotator is a MIDI application used by composers to evolve music. GeNotator uses evolutionary algorithms to generate interesting music based on parameters set by the composer. The user controls ‘such factors as population size, mutation likelihood and designating which parents partake in breeding. By auditioning and scoring phenotypes, the user exerts influence on the direction the evolutionary process follows.’
Music
BeatBender helps musicians create unique and aesthetically-pleasing beats. The musician sets constraints that direct six computer percussionists, who in turn influence each other to create a new beat.
Music
Clap-along is an interactive system that allows a human musician and the computer to create a rhythmic duet. Both the human and the computer simultaneously play a 4-bar clapping pattern. They negotiate with each other like in an improvised performance, continually responding to the other agent’s music by adjusting their own.
Music, Theatre/Performance
CoCo Sketch is a system that draws and produces music to accompany an artist’s sketch. As the artist draws, CoCo Sketch adds to their drawing while also providing musical accompaniment.
Music, Painting/Drawing
The Continuator is a music generation system that ‘is able to learn and generate music in any style, either in standalone mode, as continuations of musician’s input, or as interactive improvisation back up.’ The musician inputs music, and the system generates new music in the same style.
Music, Theatre/Performance