[eu-gene] Psst...Wanna Buy an Algorithm? (Working Title)

[Paul Brown]

Hello All, 
 
I am currently preparing a paper for presentation at this year's
Generative Art Conference in Milan, abstract below, and would be
interested in your thoughts. I would be particularly interested to learn
of any real life situations that you are aware of where generative music
systems have been used and indeed used more effectively to deliver music
to the end user than their linear counterparts. I would also be
interested in hearing your thoughts about the nature and importance of
the algorithm within generative music systems, particularly in those
systems that are created for a specific purpose or environment in mind.
You might, however, find the whole idea completely abhorrent, anti-art,
not what nature intended and the first step on the rocky road towards
commercialised oblivion. If this is the case I really do want to hear
from you. 
Thanks in advance.
Paul Brown (not that one but another one)
 
 
 
Psst.....Wanna Buy an Algorithm? (Working Title)
The Proliferation of Generative Music Systems throughout 
Everyday Life and its Affects on the Music Industry
 
Paul P. Brown M.A. 
Research Student, Angila Polytechnic University, Cambridge, United
Kingdom 
jeddy3 at tele2.fr
  
Abstract
 
Generative music is created within a system as a result of the rules
implemented by its creator. In computer based systems these rules, and
therefore the music produced, may be further influenced by external
sources converted into digital data. This combination enables generative
music systems to create music for a specific environment or purpose. The
adaptability of music produced by generative music systems could
substitute many instances where linear music is currently used in
everyday situations.  This paper reviews instances where generative
music systems could be used to replace linear music systems in everyday
settings and enhance the effects of music in those settings. Such
settings include healthcare, personal fitness, restaurants, retail
outlets, offices, factories, in the motor industry, in domestic settings
and within the telecommunication industry. Since the music produced by
generative music systems is copyright free, and therefore exempt from
the usual public performance licensing procedures, the paper then goes
on to examine the importance and nature of the algorithm within
generative music systems and considers how the generative music composer
could be remunerated each time music generated by his or her algorithm
is performed in public. The title of this paper makes inference to the
likely attempts that the established music industry will make to firstly
ignore the idea of generative music systems and then to suppress their
proliferation by attempting to outlaw such systems despite their
legality. The paper therefore concludes by discussing some of the
implications of generative music systems on the music industry. 
 
This paper follows on from my MA thesis "Is the Future of Music
Generative?" (1) and is a precursor to my research degree at APU in
Cambridge where I propose to examine the feasibility of using generative
music systems as tools to assist music therapists and patient carers in
health settings.
 
References
 
(1)   Brown, Paul (2005) "Is the Future of Music Generative?" Music
Therapy Today (online) Vol VI (2) 215-274 available from
<http://www.musictherapyworld.de/modules/mmmagazine/showarticle.php?arti
cletoshow=136>
http://www.musictherapyworld.de/modules/mmmagazine/showarticle.php?artic
letoshow=136
 
 
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