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FROM EXPERIMENTS IN MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE TO EMILY HOWELL The Work of David Cope CAREER CONTEXT The composer … Professor at UC Santa Cruz … Author of books on Musical intelligence (6) Twentieth-century music (2) The programs … EMI (Exp Mus Int) … Teacher … 5/11/2010 Algorithmic composition 20th-century analytical methods Composer Uses several mediums Writes works in groups, cycles Recent works are assisted by Emily Howell 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 2 EXPERIMENTS IN MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE 1990-2006 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 3 DATA ANALYSIS PHASE Select a repertory (one composer, one genre) Encode several pieces Parse them into five elements of musical grammar … Statements … Preparations … Extensions … Antecedents … Consequents Discover and store “signatures” (identify “earmarks”) 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 4 SIGNATURES IN THE SPEAC GRAMMAR Are relatively short (2-5 events) Are shorter than themes Are stored with approach and departure info Are described by intervallic relationships Are not described by key or mode 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 5 LISTENING TO SPEAC EXAMPLES Bach invention Joplin rag Mozart Violin Concerto, movement 3 Gershwin 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 6 COMPOSING NEW WORKS User selects a composer User selects a genre User selects a key and mode User selects a meter Emmy generates one (or many) new work(s) User discards what he does not want 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 7 WAYS OF EXPERIENCING EMMY Listening to MIDI performances Listening to live performances Viewing the notated music Performing the music http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 8 REACTIONS TO EMI From MIDI files 5/11/2010 “mechanical” Too fast Too slow Too soft Too loud Not human From live concerts That’s by a computer? 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 9 Emmy-Beethoven Symphony 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 10 COMPUTER MODELS AND HIDDEN STRUCTURE 2005-2009 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 11 COMPUTER MODELS OF MUSICAL CREATIVITY Initiates process of signature capture from interactive user responses Evolves its own lexicons Models broader processes of grammaticallyfounded processes including 5/11/2010 … Speech … Poetry … Lyrics 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 12 HIDDEN STRUCTURE Takes comprehensive view of 20th-century analytical concepts Makes them available for compositional algorithms 5/11/2010 … Post-tonal music … Generative algorithms 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 13 EMILY HOWELL 2010— 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 14 EMILY HOWELL Debuted in March 2010 Represents the second incarnation of Emmy Composes modern, original music http://www.miller-mccune.com/culturesociety/triumph-of-the-cyborg-composer-8507/ 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 15 PIECES BY EMILY HOWELL From Darkness, Light Land of Stone Shadow Worlds http://www.centaurrecords.com/ 5/11/2010 2010 Eleanor Selfridge-Field 16