[eu-gene] Generative or not?

[alex]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 12:52 +0200, 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?

I guess those citations from Rowe, Lippe and Winkler would answer the
question, I'll look them up next time I'm in the library and let you
know what I find out.

The use of the word "interactive" is odd.  Surely if something is
interactive, it has inputs?  That said, I was talking to an AI guru a
few months ago who said that in strict terms, no-one has managed to make
a computer program that is truly interactive.  I've been pondering upon
this ever since.

By the way I just finished this essay, it might be of interest to some
people here;
http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma503am/essays/voronoi/voronoi-diagrams-of-music.pdf


alex