Real-Time Music Generation for a Virtual Environment
Judy Robertson, Andrew de Quincey, Tom Stapleford, Geraínt A. Wiggins · 1998
We describe how we are adapting musical techniques used in films to build a computer program to generate atmospheric music suited to an educational virtual environment. The generator produces music to convey fear using suspense and surprise. The paper motivates the search for a mapping between these emotions and musical structure and outlines how the music generator is implemented. It also explains how we intend to evaluate the effects the music has on the users' subjective sense of presence or "being there".