On the Meaning of Life (in Artificial Life Approaches to Music)
Oliver Bown, Geraínt A. Wiggins · 2007
Artificial life (alife) is of interest to computer musicians due to its generative potential and the potential for pro-ducing lifelike behaviours for musical interaction. In this paper we consider how future developments in alife music could have equal bearing on the major themes in alife as on the music it produced. We focus on a discussion of the socio-cultural dimensions of making music with technol-ogy and argue that modern popular music making prac-tice outside of individualist academic research projects is an important context for the development of alife music systems. This discussion introduces a number of themes about how computational creativity and human creativity may interact as the field progresses. 1