Description du livre
Musicians have always been acutely aware of the scientific developments of their time. From the discovery almost three thousand years ago of the relationship between the pitch of a note and the length of a string or pipe, to computer models of human musical cognition and intelligence, musicians have looked to science to provide new and challenging ways to study and compose music. Advances in evolutionary biology, from insights into the origins of humans and other species to mappings of the genes that control growth and development, have fostered a new approach to the study of music: evolutionary computation. This book discusses the applications of evolutionary computation to music, and presents tools needed to create and study such systems. The book describes simulation tools that can be combined to create surrogate artificial worlds populated by interacting simulated organisms, which permit complex musical experiments that would otherwise be impossible.