TY - GEN
T1 - Emerging composition
T2 - 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference, SMC 2016
AU - Tipei, Sever
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge the support of Dr. Volodymyr Kindratenko and the Innovative Systems Laboratory at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), for facilitating the computing infrastructure to perform the work.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2016 Maria Abela Scicluna et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Emerging Composition: Being and Becoming envisions a work in continuous transformation, never reaching an equilibrium, a complex dynamic system whose components permanently fluctuate and adjust to global changes. The process never produces a definitive version, but provides at any arbitrary point in time a plausible variant of the work - a transitory being. Directed Graphs are used to represent the structural levels of a composition (vertices) and the relationships between them (edges); parent-children and ancestor-descendant type connections describe well potential hierarchies in a piece of music. By determining adjacencies and degrees of vertices and introducing weights for edges, one can define affinities and dependencies in the complex and flexible structure that is a musical composition. Ways in which the all-incidence matrix of a graph with weighted edges can evolve are discussed including the use for that purpose of elements of Information Theory. The Emerging Composition model is closer to the way composers actually write music and refine their output; it also creates the equivalent of a live organism, growing, developing, and transforming itself over time.
AB - Emerging Composition: Being and Becoming envisions a work in continuous transformation, never reaching an equilibrium, a complex dynamic system whose components permanently fluctuate and adjust to global changes. The process never produces a definitive version, but provides at any arbitrary point in time a plausible variant of the work - a transitory being. Directed Graphs are used to represent the structural levels of a composition (vertices) and the relationships between them (edges); parent-children and ancestor-descendant type connections describe well potential hierarchies in a piece of music. By determining adjacencies and degrees of vertices and introducing weights for edges, one can define affinities and dependencies in the complex and flexible structure that is a musical composition. Ways in which the all-incidence matrix of a graph with weighted edges can evolve are discussed including the use for that purpose of elements of Information Theory. The Emerging Composition model is closer to the way composers actually write music and refine their output; it also creates the equivalent of a live organism, growing, developing, and transforming itself over time.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - SMC 2016 - 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Proceedings
SP - 463
EP - 468
BT - SMC 2016 - 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Grossmann, Rolf
A2 - Hajdu, Georg
PB - Zentrum fur Mikrotonale Musik und Multimediale Komposition (ZM4), Hochschule fur Musik und Theater
Y2 - 31 August 2019 through 3 September 2019
ER -