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The article discusses how coding of music involves the building and management of generative processes, and how this human interaction with generative processes provides a unique perspective on understanding how generative algorithms need to be represented as code to best afford interaction and modification.
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Computer algorithms are often only considered from the perspective of mathematical efficiency or programming language architecture. This paper takes a performative view of algorithm design driven by the Neds of live coding as a creative practice. It describes how such a view to algorithm design for interactive adaptation provides a new and, we suggest, innovative perspective on the design of dynamic algorithms with potential application beyond creative practices.
Perspectives
The assumption that there is a 'human in the loop' when designing automated computational processes was somewhat novel at the time of this publication although as computational has become increasingly ubiquitous and mobile these situations are more prominent. This article points that way to that more interactive, often co-creative, future and shows how artistic perspectives can be insightful in technical areas because of their integration of humanistic concerns.
algorithmicmusic@gmail.com Andrew R. Brown
Griffith University
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This page is a summary of: Interacting with Generative Music through Live Coding, Contemporary Music Review, February 2009, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/07494460802663991.
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