Song 4

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  • Song 4:

    • Score

    Evolutionary Process

    Undergraduate Trevor A. Brindle created an initial piece and evolved all five accompaniment lines for Song 4 directly from it. Instead of inputting results from previous generations, he started new runs for each voice from the same scaffold, giving a strong influence to the melody.

    The key decisions made by the users are in general from which tracks to generate more tracks. Of course the users also performed the IEC selection operations to breed each new layer. Importantly, none such decisions require musical expertise.