Automating the composition of popular music : the search for a hit.

Millea, Timothy A. and Wakefield, Jonathan P. (2009) Automating the composition of popular music : the search for a hit. In: Proceedings of Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2009: CEARC’09. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, pp. 45-50. ISBN 9781862180857

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Abstract

The field of automated music composition has existed since the 1950s and spans a wide variety of techniques. Popular music is often thought of as being compositionally simpler than classical forms but, as far as is known no automated composer has ever had a hit record. A system is proposed which uses the decomposition of an input set of existing music to guide the search for new popular music within an evolutionary algorithm. A novel representation of music is proposed to reduce the search space and is expected to improve the quality of the results.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Popular music, automated composition, representation, evolutionary algorithm
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Schools:	School of Computing and Engineering School of Computing and Engineering > Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference (CEARC) School of Computing and Engineering > Pedagogical Research Group School of Computing and Engineering > Music Technology and Production Research Group
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Depositing User:	Sharon Beastall
Date Deposited:	27 Jan 2010 11:31
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2016 18:13
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/6860

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