Modelling musical behaviour in a cultural-evolutionary system
Oliver Bown, Geraínt A. Wiggins · 2005
The computational study of musical behaviour, as with creativity, is traditionally couched in psycho-logical terms, but in both cases a social perspec-tive has also taken root. We present an approach to studying musical behaviour through the simu-lation of cultural evolutionary systems. We dis-cuss the need for this approach and some of the issues involved in constructing such a simulation, and present observations from our first trials, which suggest ways in which evolving systems of musical normativity can be examined. These initial obser-vations will form the basis for future models. 1