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creators_name: Bavister, P
title: Biometrically Evolved Site-Specific Music as a Response to Localised Acoustic Conditions
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F36
keywords: Evolutionary Computation, Biometric Sensing,
Neural Networks, Virtual Acoustics
note: © 2023 First author et al. This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution,
and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and
source are credited.
abstract: This paper describes a series of experiments to engage
intelligent systems and biometric sensing in a reciprocally
creative relationship between computer composed music
and physical space, accessing correlations between spatial
volume, materiality, and performance.
The paper will review tests undertaken at UCL in 2022, in
evolving site-specific music using virtual acoustics,
evolutionary programming, and biometric sensing. The
paper will describe and define the toolsets involved, neural
networks to determine note generation and periodicity,
evolutionary processes to determine sequencing and
emotional response as a fitness function and summarises
how these were applied. The analysis of the outputs is
compared against the room’s acoustic data for correlations
and relationships. Metrics to seek correlations against
tempo fluctuations are T30, T20, EDT and C80.
The output of the tests gives us clues as to what future
music is likely to appeal emotionally in such spaces for
differing listeners’ demographics. As the spaces chosen
were not typical acoustic musical venues, there are no
preconceived ideas about what would or should not
sound acceptable in each. If music can evolve to suit a
space, then surely each space, however acoustically
detrimental, can host something that can be viewed as
aesthetically pleasing and site specific.
date: 2023-09-15
date_type: published
publisher: European Acoustics Association (EAA)
official_url: http://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0306
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2266682
doi: 10.61782/fa.2023.0306
lyricists_name: Bavister, Paul
lyricists_id: PBAVI96
actors_name: Bavister, Paul
actors_id: PBAVI96
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
publication: Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023
pagerange: 6411-6418
event_title: 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023
event_dates: 11 Sep 2023 - 15 Sep 2023
issn: 2221-3767
book_title: Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023
citation:        Bavister, P;      (2023)    Biometrically Evolved Site-Specific Music as a Response to Localised Acoustic Conditions.                     In:  Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023.  (pp. pp. 6411-6418).  European Acoustics Association (EAA)       Green open access   
 
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