Distributed Composition of Abstract Music

Abstract

Music is a form of art previously explored exclusively by humans. With the invention of computers, computer-generated music has become an interesting branch of music to look at. We decided to take the approach of generating music from an artificial life standpoint. We have done this by creating a cellular automaton that runs inside of the Moveable Feast Machine. By varying parameters such as how likely we are to leave dissonant sounds alone, what kind of chords we wish to produce, or the type of musical scale we want to work with, we can listen to the results change and improve over time.