Eden: An Evolutionary Sonic Ecosystem
ECAL '01 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Evolutionary Computer Music
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IAT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
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AOSE'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering III
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In this paper, we describe a software system that generates unique musical compositions in realtime, created by four autonomous multi-agents. Given no explicit musical data, agents explore their environment, building beliefs through interactions with other agents via messaging and listening (to both audio and/or MIDI data), generating goals, and executing plans. The artistic focus of Coming Together is the actual process of convergence, heard during performance (each of which usually lasts about ten minutes): the movement from random individualism to converged ensemble interaction. If convergence is successful, four additional agents are instantiated that exploit the emergent harmony and rhythm through brief, but beautiful melodic gestures. Once these agents have completed their work, or if the original "explorer" agents fail to converge, the system resets itself, and the process begins again.