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From: cain@ics.uci.edu (Timothy Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Music and AI
Keywords: MUSIC, CONNECTIONISM, NEURALNETS
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Date: 3 Jun 91 21:29:09 GMT
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Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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In <14344@ur-cc.UUCP> ka2cs220@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Steve Berkley) writes:
>If anyone has any suggestions concerning applications of
>learning systems in a specialized domain of "automatic
>composition" of music, I would appreciate it.  I am researching
>the feasability of a real-time (NN?) automatic composition program
>in C, fed with MIDI data.

At AAAI-88 in Minneapolis-St.Paul, there was a workshop on this topic.
You might want to track down its proceedings (the workshop's, not
AAAI's). I don't have it, since I was next door in the planning
workshop. Unlike those systems, please include a volume control
parameter on your program.  :-)

Tim.

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Timothy D. Cain
Department of Information and Computer Science  UC Irvine
                                          cain@ics.uci.edu             (ARPA)