Creative Machines

Exploring creative machines especially in music.
All video demos based on source code here:
https://github.com/josephwilk/musical-creativity

Transcript

1. Creative
   Machines
   Joseph Wilk
   

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2. Romance
   

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3. Creativity
   

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4. Historical
   Creativity
   Psychological
   

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6. Combination
   

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7. Combination
   

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8. Exploration
   

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9. Exploration
   

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10. Transformation
    

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11. Transformation
    

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12. Transformation
    

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13. Creative Machines
    

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14. Entropy  
    Death =
    Chaos
    

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22. Music
    

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23. Complexity
    

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25. Capture
    Human
    creativity
    

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27. Delta
    Theta
    Alpha
    Beta
    Gamma
    

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28. Test  subject:  X
    

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29. HUMAN
    BRAIN
    

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32. An Integrated
    Model of Musical
    Creativity
    

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33. Allusion
    “Creativity  relies  in  part  on  the  juxtaposition  of  
    allusions  to  the  work  of  others”
    David Cope
    

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35. https://github.com/josephwilk/musical-creativity/blob/master/src/musical_creativity/allusion/sorcerer.clj
    

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44. Recombinance
    “Creativity  does  not  originate  from  a  vacuum”
    David  Cope
    

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45. beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat
    Composition
    

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46. beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat
    

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47. beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat
    

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48. beat beat beat
    beat
    beat beat beat beat beat
    

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50. beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat
    beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat
    

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51. beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat
    beat
    beat
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52. beat
    Leading  voice
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    72
    72
    72
    72
    {:start-notes '(53 57 62 65)
    :destination-notes '(45 57 64 72)
    :events '((22000 53 500 4 96)
    (22000 57 1000 3 96)
    (22000 62 1500 2 96)
    (22000 65 1000 1 96)
    (22500 55 500 4 96)
    (23000 57 1000 4 96)
    (23000 57 1000 3 96)
    (23000 64 1000 1 96)
    (23500 61 500 2 96))
    :voice-leading '((4 -8 0 b43800b-14)
    (9 -8 2 b43800b-14)
    (12 -8 7 b43800b-14)
    (5 0 2 b43800b-14)
    (8 0 7 b43800b-14)
    (3 2 7 b43800b-14))}
    Beat  store
    

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53. {:start-notes '(53 57 62 65)
    :destination-notes '(45 57 64 72)
    :events '((22000 53 500 4 96)
    (22000 57 1000 3 96)
    (22000 62 1500 2 96)
    (22000 65 1000 1 96)
    (22500 55 500 4 96)
    (23000 57 1000 4 96)
    (23000 57 1000 3 96)
    (23000 64 1000 1 96)
    (23500 61 500 2 96))
    :voice-leading '((4 -8 0 b43800b-14)
    (9 -8 2 b43800b-14)
    (12 -8 7 b43800b-14)
    (5 0 2 b43800b-14)
    (8 0 7 b43800b-14)
    (3 2 7 b43800b-14))}
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    72
    72
    72
    72
    (4 -8 0 b43800b-14)
    53 - 45
    57-53
    57-57
    Leading  voice
    Beat  store
    

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54. {:start-notes '(53 57 62 65)
    :destination-notes '(45 57 64 72)
    :events '((22000 53 500 4 96)
    (22000 57 1000 3 96)
    (22000 62 1500 2 96)
    (22000 65 1000 1 96)
    (22500 55 500 4 96)
    (23000 57 1000 4 96)
    (23000 57 1000 3 96)
    (23000 64 1000 1 96)
    (23500 61 500 2 96))
    :voice-leading '((4 -8 0 b43800b-14)
    (9 -8 2 b43800b-14)
    (12 -8 7 b43800b-14)
    (5 0 2 b43800b-14)
    (8 0 7 b43800b-14)
    (3 2 7 b43800b-14))}
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    beat
    72
    72
    72
    72
    {"bach-45-57-64-72"
    {:beats ("b43800b-15"
    "b43600b-62"
    "b43300b-10"
    "b43100b-2")}}
    Lexicon
    Beat  store
    Leading  voice
    

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55. Recombinance DEMO
    

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56. CHEAT!
    

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57. BAD
    Recombinance DEMO
    

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58. Influence
    “Creativity  develops  within  enfolding  and  
    influencing  context,  and  not  in  isolation”
    David  Cope
    

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60. Knowledge
    “Creativity  requires  learning  and  knowledge  in  order  to  
    produce  useful  rather  than  arbitrary  results”
    David Cope
    Learning
    Inference
    

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62. Inference  &  Analogy
    

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65. David Cope Emily Howell
    

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66. Creative
    Machines
    Joseph Wilk
    

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67. “it  can  do  whatever  we  know  how  to  order  it  
    to  perform”  
     
    “it  has  no  pretensions  whatever  to  originate  
    anything”
    

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68. Not Conscious
    

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69. Non human
    

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70. Creativity
    

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71. Subconscious
    Joseph Wilk
    

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72. Subconscious
    Joseph Wilk
    

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