Elevated Pitch: Automated Grammatical Evolution of Short Compositions

Authors:
John Reddin;James Mcdermott;Michael O'Neill
Affiliations:
Trinity College Dublin,;University College Dublin,;University College Dublin,
Venue:
EvoWorkshops '09 Proceedings of the EvoWorkshops 2009 on Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoCOMNET, EvoENVIRONMENT, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, EvoTRANSLOG
Year:
2009

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Abstract

A system for automatic composition using grammatical evolution is presented. Music is created under the constraints of a generative grammar, and under the bias of an automatic fitness function and evolutionary selection. This combination of two methods is seen to be powerful and flexible. Human evaluation of automatically-evolved pieces shows that a more sophisticated grammar in combination with a naive fitness function gives better results than the reverse.