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Applications of system dynamics modelling to computer music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2001

IAN WHALLEY
Affiliation:
The University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Based on a composer's psycho-acoustic imagination or response to music, system dynamics modelling and simulation tools can be used as a scoring device to map the structural dynamic shape of interest of computer music compositions. The tools can also be used as a generator of compositional ideas reflecting thematic juxtaposition and emotional flux in musical narratives. These techniques allow the modelling of everyday narratives to provide a structural/metaphorical means of music composition based on archetypes that are shared with wider audiences. The methods are outlined using two examples.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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