Creating a Digital Mirror of Creative Practice

Johnson, Colin

Abstract

This paper describes an ongoing project to create a “digital mirror” to my practice as a composer of contemporary classical music; that is, a system that takes descriptions (in code) of aspects of that practice, and reflects them back as computer-generated realisations. The paper describes the design process of this system, explains how it is im- plemented, and gives some examples of the material that it generates. The paper further discusses some broader issues about the technologi- cal approach to building creative systems, in particular the advantages and disadvantages of building bespoke algorithms for generating creative content vs. the use of optimisation or learning from examples.

Citation

Johnson, C. (2021, April). Creating a Digital Mirror of Creative Practice. Presented at 10th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2021), Online

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: 10th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2021)
• Start Date: Apr 7, 2021
• End Date: Apr 9, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Jan 20, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Apr 2, 2021
• Publication Date: Apr 2, 2021
• Deposit Date: Feb 19, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 3, 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Volume: 12693
• Pages: 427-442
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743
• Book Title: Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design – 10th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2021
• ISBN: 9783030729134
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72914-1_28
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5335365
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72914-1_28
• Related Public URLs: http://www.evostar.org/2021/evomusart/
• Additional Information: Johnson C.G. (2021) Creating a Digital Mirror of Creative Practice. In: Romero J., Martins T., Rodríguez-Fernández N. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12693. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72914-1_28