TY - CHAP
T1 - Composing without Composers?
T2 - Creation, control and individuality in computer-based algorithmic composition
AU - Willcock, Ian
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The combination of a longstanding fascination with artificial life and developments in digital technology provide opportunities for constructing computer-based intelligences that exhibit some of the characteristics of individual personalities with significant musical competencies. Digital technologies, in many different areas of musical application, are participating in this development and the relationships between humans and computers are changing as a consequence. Composers, who have often sought to remove themselves from the act of creation, are becoming able to approach composition in new ways. However, the novel potential for creating algorithmic composing agents and the development of a networked society, will also force composers to confront and accommodate anxieties about the loss of individual creative identity in a digital age.
AB - The combination of a longstanding fascination with artificial life and developments in digital technology provide opportunities for constructing computer-based intelligences that exhibit some of the characteristics of individual personalities with significant musical competencies. Digital technologies, in many different areas of musical application, are participating in this development and the relationships between humans and computers are changing as a consequence. Composers, who have often sought to remove themselves from the act of creation, are becoming able to approach composition in new ways. However, the novel potential for creating algorithmic composing agents and the development of a networked society, will also force composers to confront and accommodate anxieties about the loss of individual creative identity in a digital age.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783936000153
SN - 3936000158
VL - 4
T3 - New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century
SP - 221
EP - 235
BT - Electronics in New Music
A2 - Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen
A2 - Cox, Frank
A2 - Schurig, Wolfram
PB - Wolke Verlag
CY - Hofheim
ER -