[eu-gene] Generative or not?

[Rob Myers]

On 14 Feb 2006, at 10:52, Lauri Gröhn wrote:

> 2. Interactive/Behavioural: music generated by a system component  
> that ostensibly has no inputs. That is, 'not  
> transformational' (Rowe 1991; Lippe 1997:34; Winkler 1998).
>
> Could someone explain that? How is that possible?

You could have a system of agents with various behaviours that  
interact with each other and send output to a loudspeaker or MIDI  
system. They needn't have any input, although they have been put into  
the system by someone to start with. :-)

Maybe.

- Rob.