Complex Adaptive Music Systems in the BREVE Simulation Environment

Lee Spector
Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002, USA
lspector@hampshire.edu
http://hampshire.edu/lspector

Jon Klein
Physical Resource Theory
Chalmers University of Technology and Goteborg University
SE-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden
also: Cognitive Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
jklein@hampshire.edu

This page contains information related to "Complex Adaptive Music Systems in the BREVE Simulation Environment," a paper for the workshop "Artificial Life Models for Musical Applications II: Searching for musical creativity" at The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Artificial Life VIII, December, 2002.

Abstract

We describe two sets of musical applications of the BREVE simulation system. The first adds musical events and interactions to a system of evolving, goal-directed swarms. The second extends 3d cellular automata to respond to musical input and to generate musical output. Although this paper will print in black and white in the proceedings, color versions of the figures, along with links to audio samples and other materials, can be found on-line at http://hampshire.edu/lspector/alife8-music.html.

Citation

Spector, L., and J. Klein. 2002. Complex Adaptive Music Systems in the BREVE Simulation Environment. In Bilotta et al. (eds), Workshop Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 17-23. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales.

Full paper

Available in PDF format: http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/pubs/alife8-music.pdf

Associated links

• The BREVE simulation environment: http://www.spiderland.org/breve.
• Movies: (Large to preserve image quality, and silent because we currently have no good way to record graphics and audio simultaneously)
  • SwarmEvolve: http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/swarmevolve-ex1.mov (~10MB).
  • More SwarmEvolve movies: http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/alife8-visualization.html.
  • CA3D: http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/ca3d.mov (~18.5MB).
  • SwarmCA: http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/swarmca_ex1.mov (~1.9MB).
• Audio samples:
  • SwarmEvolveMusic:
    • http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/semusic_ex1.mp3 (200KB).
    • http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/semusic_ex2.mp3 (268B).
    • http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/semusic_ex3.mp3 (484KB).
    • http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/semusic_ex4.mp3 (120KB).
  • CA3DMusic:
    • http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/ca3dmusic_ex1.mp3 (428KB).
    • http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/ca3dmusic_ex2.mp3 (1.8MB).