- The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music
- Contributors
- Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages, and Partners: A Perspective
- Algorithmic Music and the Philosophy of Time
- Action and Perception: Embodying Algorithms and the Extended Mind
- Origins of Algorithmic Thinking in Music
- Algorithmic Thinking and Central Javanese Gamelan
- Thoughts on Composing with Algorithms
- Mexico and India: Diversifying and Expanding the Live Coding Community
- Deautomatization of Breakfast Perceptions
- Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise?
- Compositions Created with Constraint Programming
- Linking Sonic Aesthetics with Mathematical Theories
- The Machine Learning Algorithm as Creative Musical Tool
- Biologically Inspired and Agent-Based Algorithms for Music
- Performing with Patterns of Time
- Computational Creativity and Live Algorithms
- Tensions and Techniques in Live Coding Performance
- When Algorithms Meet Machines
- Notes on Pattern Synthesis: 1983 to 2013
- Performing Algorithms
- Network Music and the Algorithmic Ensemble
- Sonification ≠ Music
- Colour is the Keyboard: Case Studies in Transcoding Visual to Sonic
- Designing Interfaces for Musical Algorithms
- Ecooperatic Music Game Theory
- Algorithmic Spatialization
- Form, Chaos, and the Nuance of Beauty
- Beyond Me
- Perspective on Practice
- Thoughts on an Algorithmic Practice
- The Audience Reception of Algorithmic Music
- Technology, Creativity, and the Social in Algorithmic Music
- Algorithms and Computation in Music Education
- (Micro)Politics of Algorithmic Music: Towards a Tactical Media Archaeology
- Algorithmic Music for Mass Consumption and Universal Production
- Algorithmic Trajectories
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Computer games can be approached as musical forms. Considered in this light, they operate on a number of scales that are typically considered hierarchically distinct, functioning at once as instrument, composition, notation, robotic musician(s), and ecosystem or ‘total music space’. The totalizing image is central, as the marriage of musics with games grants us the possibility of composing software experiences as ‘total artworks’, operatic toys assembled from a diverse set of interactive and deterministic algorithmic components. This understanding of games is grounded in the concept of ‘affordances’, as drawn from ecological psychology and explicitly contrasted with the totalizing psychosocial economism implied by game theory’s rational agents. The purpose of this chapter is to attempt a description of computer games in such a way as to aid in conceptualizing a pluralistic ecological ‘totality’ vis-à-vis the computer game medium’s essential musicality.
Keywords: computer games, opera, ecological psychology, game theory, computer game music
David Kanaga, independent composer and designer, Oakland
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- The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music
- Contributors
- Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages, and Partners: A Perspective
- Algorithmic Music and the Philosophy of Time
- Action and Perception: Embodying Algorithms and the Extended Mind
- Origins of Algorithmic Thinking in Music
- Algorithmic Thinking and Central Javanese Gamelan
- Thoughts on Composing with Algorithms
- Mexico and India: Diversifying and Expanding the Live Coding Community
- Deautomatization of Breakfast Perceptions
- Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise?
- Compositions Created with Constraint Programming
- Linking Sonic Aesthetics with Mathematical Theories
- The Machine Learning Algorithm as Creative Musical Tool
- Biologically Inspired and Agent-Based Algorithms for Music
- Performing with Patterns of Time
- Computational Creativity and Live Algorithms
- Tensions and Techniques in Live Coding Performance
- When Algorithms Meet Machines
- Notes on Pattern Synthesis: 1983 to 2013
- Performing Algorithms
- Network Music and the Algorithmic Ensemble
- Sonification ≠ Music
- Colour is the Keyboard: Case Studies in Transcoding Visual to Sonic
- Designing Interfaces for Musical Algorithms
- Ecooperatic Music Game Theory
- Algorithmic Spatialization
- Form, Chaos, and the Nuance of Beauty
- Beyond Me
- Perspective on Practice
- Thoughts on an Algorithmic Practice
- The Audience Reception of Algorithmic Music
- Technology, Creativity, and the Social in Algorithmic Music
- Algorithms and Computation in Music Education
- (Micro)Politics of Algorithmic Music: Towards a Tactical Media Archaeology
- Algorithmic Music for Mass Consumption and Universal Production
- Algorithmic Trajectories
- Index
