- 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
While computational models of human music making are a hot research topic, the human side of computer-based music making has been largely neglected. What are our cognitive processes like when we create musical algorithms, and when we compose and perform with them? Musical human–algorithm interaction involves embodied action, perception and interaction, and some kind of internalization of the algorithms in the performer’s mind. How does the cognitive relate to the physical here? Departing from the age-old mind–body problem, this chapter tries to answer these questions and review relevant research, drawing from a number of related fields, such as musical cognition, cognition and psychology of programming, embodied performance, and neurological research, as well as from the author’s personal experience as an artist working in the field.
Keywords: algorithmic music, embodiment, mental models, agency, performance
Palle Dahlstedt, Obel Professor of Art and Technology, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University
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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
