- 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
This chapter explores algorithmic music and the software tools used to create it from the perspective of media that allow it to be distributed to mass audiences, such as smartphone apps, web-based experiences, and dedicated software packages. Different types of listener input and interaction for various algorithmic music formats are analysed, and examples of each are given. Advantages and disadvantages of various distribution platforms, both present and historic, are explored, and critical reaction to this wide body of work is also reviewed. Conclusions are drawn that the field is still relatively nascent, with advances in consumer technology being a main driver for innovation in this area of music distribution and creation.
Keywords: algorithmic music, dynamic music, adaptive, reactive, interactive music, generative music, smartphones, apps, software, Web Audio
Yuli Levtov, founder of Reactify, London
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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
