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Mediating Action and Music with Augmented Grammars

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Current approaches to the integration of action and music in Intelligent Virtual Environments are in most part, “hardwired” to fit a particular interaction scheme. This lack of independence between both parts prevents the music or sound director from exploring new musical possibilities in a systematic and focused way.

A framework is proposed which mediates action and music, using an augmented context free grammar based model of behavior to map events from the environment to musical events. This framework includes mechanisms for self modification of the model and maintenance of internal state variables. The output module can be changed to perform other non musical behavior.

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  1. Instituto Superior Técnico, Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters Group, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Lisboa, Portugal

    Pietro Casella & Ana Paiva

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  1. Pietro Casella
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  1. University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161, Augsburg, Germany

    Thomas Rist

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth S. Aylett

  3. BT plc, Adastral Park, IP5 3RE, Ipswich, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  4. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, 90292-6695, Marina del Rey, CA

    Jeff Rickel

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Casella, P., Paiva, A. (2003). Mediating Action and Music with Augmented Grammars. In: Rist, T., Aylett, R.S., Ballin, D., Rickel, J. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39396-2_34

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