COMPOzE-intention-based music composition through constraint programming

Author

Henz, Martin ; Lauer, Stefan ; Zimmermann, Detlev

Author_Institution

Programming Syst. Lab., Saarlandes Univ., Saarbrucken, Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

16-19 Nov. 1996

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

121

Abstract

We goal of the work is to derive four-voice music pieces from given musical plans, which describe the harmonic flow and the intentions of a desired composition. We developed the experimentation platform COMPOzE for intention based composition. COMPOzE is based on constraint programming over finite domains of integers. We argue that constraint programming provides a suitable technology for this task and that the libraries and tools available for the constraint programming system Oz effectively support the implementation of COMPOzE. This work links the research areas of automatic music composition on one hand and finite domain constraint programming on the other, and contributes the tool COMPOzE, which practically demonstrates the potential of constraint programming to open up new areas of application for automatic music composition.

Keywords

constraint handling; music; COMPOzE; automatic music composition; experimentation platform; finite domain constraint programming; finite domains; four-voice music pieces; harmonic flow; intention based music composition; musical plans; Application software; Automatic programming; Cognitive science; Computer science; Concrete; Electronic mail; Graphical user interfaces; Libraries; Multiple signal classification; Music;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1996., Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1082-3409

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7686-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.1996.560441

Filename

560441