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

[Lauri Gröhn]

Hi Paul,

Your article was very inspireing and useful. It 
seems that generating music from pictures was not 
mentioned there. Please have a look and listen here:

http://www.synestesia.com

Regards,

Lauri Gröhn
metacomposer

At 16:05 14.10.2005, Paul Brown wrote:
>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?articletoshow=136>http://www.musictherapyworld.de/modules/mmmagazine/showarticle.php?articletoshow=136
>
>
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