Case-based Melody Generation with MuzaCazUza

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Abstract

MuzaCazUza is a system for interactive composition of musical ideas in two phases: first, the program composes a melody by the application of Case-based Reasoning (CBR) techniques, according to a given harmonic line and a set of pre-defined structure; then, a set of transformation operators are available to change the generated idea.
We believe analogy-based architectures (like CBR) are a fertile ground to model computational creativity and, more specifically, musical composition. Indeed, our everyday reasoning, be it more or less creative, has the constant presence of past experience and it is not uncommon in the Music field to notice recurrence of themes, rhythmic patterns, melodic cells, and other musical objects from previous compositions.
In this paper, we describe MuzaCazUza in some detail and discuss some practical and theoretical issues that will appear within context. We also show some preliminary results.

Subject

AI and Music

Conference

AISB'01, March 2001

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