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This paper describes a compositional, extensible framework for music composition and a user study to systematically evaluate its core components. These components include a graph traversal-based chord sequence generator, a search-based melody generator and a pattern-based accompaniment generator. An important contribution of this paper is the melody generator which uses a novel evolutionary technique combining FI-2POP and multi-objective optimization. A participant-based evaluation overwhelmingly confirms that all current components of the framework combine effectively to create harmonious, pleasant and interesting compositions.
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Scirea, M., Togelius, J., Eklund, P., Risi, S. (2016). MetaCompose: A Compositional Evolutionary Music Composer. In: Johnson, C., Ciesielski, V., Correia, J., Machado, P. (eds) Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9596. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31008-4_14
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