Automatic musical composition and musical contrast

This work examines how music can be automatically generated, and how to build a computationally-informed model of musical contrast. We have implemented our work in computer games, and for sonification of large data sets.

Main publications

• Collins, Tom; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul H. (2016). Developing and evaluating computational models of musical style. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 30(01) pp. 16–43.
• Laney, Robin; Samuels, Robert and Capulet, Emilie (2015). Cross entropy as a measure of musical contrast. In: Collins, Tom; Meredith, David and Volk, Anja eds. Mathematics and Computation in Music. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9110). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 193–198.