Virtual Music is about artificial creativity. Focusing on the author's Experiments in Musical Intelligence computer music composing program, the author and a distinguished group of experts discuss many of the issues surrounding the program, including artificial intelligence, music cognition and aesthetics. The book is divided into four parts. The ...
This text is a practical guide to the compositional techniques, resources, and technologies available to composers today. Each chapter traces the development of traditional and modern elements that form the foundation of music in the late twentieth century. Among the subjects discussed are interval exploration, serialism, pitch-class sets, twelve ...
David Cope's fourth collection, Coming Home, binds together the two major strands of his life and art. In poem after poem, Cope is by turn the clear-eyed strider of our broken cities, or the profoundly lyrical explorer of nature, of redemptive human intimacy in all its silence and nakedness. And often there is an extraordinary synthesis, as in: ...
David Cope's fifth book, Silences for Love, is framed in elegies, prophet Martin King to old friend Allen Ginsberg, opening with lights fading & flaring over Lake Superior, closing with one leaf in the hidden meadow. Here are the weary traveler & one-eyed boy, Gettysburg sundown, sighs over Sarajevo & massacre at the Patriarch's tomb, snowstorm ...
An examination of computational creativity in music offers a series of models that illustrate selected aspects of musical creativity and then presents a process that integrates these aspects and produces music creatively. In this original and provocative study of computational creativity in music David Cope asks whether computer programs can ...
Offering insight into the creative processes of a contemporary composer, "Tinman" presents 150 vignettes from author David Cope's life. Some of the notable individuals discussed in this innovative biography are John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, Warren Zevon, Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, Douglas Hofstadter, Arthur Knight, ...
Provides a compact overview of the most important papers published in this area, this yearbook expands on the coverage provided in the first 2 volumes. Papers are included on osteoarthritis, phospholipid syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis. This volume also features the most recent advances in fibromyalgia.
The author demonstrates, through the use of computer, how he is able to replicate the musical styles of composers as diverse as Bach, Mozart and Prokofiev. He explains how the resultant compositions sound entirely new, yet somehow familiar.
What a Title! And what's in a title anyway? Well for a start off it's the way that the book actually started life and the contents reflect very much a personal slant on the Christian side of life that made me wonder if in fact "I Think I Took a Wrong Turning Somewhere!! in reality!! Why would you want to read a book about someone's Christian ...
Giving direct attention to the physical impact of climate change and setting out the land use planning dimension of climate in the UK, this report identifies the direct effects of climate change on the natural and human environment and investigates the preventative and adaptive policies likely for adoption in response.
In David Cope's strikingly intense new collection, Fragments for the Stars, we see the continued development of a highly original art. Rising directly out of Williams' graphic American measure, Cope's voice is everywhere infused with a characteristic stark lyricism - producing the powerful work that Carl Rakosi has called his compassionate realism ...
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