Inspiration: MIT CourseWare on Generative Music

[oubiwann]

This may be a great use:

• Music and Technology: Algorithmic and Generative Music; in particular, the lecture notes (single PDF file pf lecture notes)
• the course readings; of particular note:
  • On the Music of Emergent Behaviour: What can Evolutionary Computation bring to the Musician?
  • GenJam in Perspective: A Tentative Taxonomy for GA Music and Art Systems

[oubiwann]

The syllabus is fantastic:

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Foundations: Algorithmic and generative music systems
2	Foundations: Musical parameters, mappings, and tools
3	Approaches: Distributions and stochastics
4	Foundations: Historical and categorical perspectives
5	History: Serialism, loops, tiling, and phasing
6	Workshop	Musical design report 1 due
7	History: Michele Gottfried Koenig	Quiz 1
8	Approaches: Permutations, generators, and chaos
9	History: Lejaren Hiller
10	Approaches: Probability and Markov chains
11	Workshop	Musical design report 2 dueQuiz 2
12	History: Iannis Xenakis
13	Approaches: Non-standard synthesis
14	Approaches: Granular and concatenative synthesis
15	Approaches: Mapping, sonification, and data bending	Quiz 3
16	Workshop	Musical design report 3 due
17	Approaches: Cellular automata
18	Approaches: Genetic algorithms
19	Approaches: Grammars and L-Systems	Quiz 4
20	History: Mechanical musical automata
21	Workshop	Sonic systemproject draft due
22	Approaches: Agents and ecological models
23	Approaches: Expert systems and style emulation	Quiz 5
24	Discussion: Aesthetics and evaluations
25	Sonic system project presentations	Sonic systemproject reportdue
26	Sonic system project presentations (cont.)

[oubiwann]

A nice companion for Session 17: Cellular automata in generative electronic music and sonic art: a historical and technical review.