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Eden: An Evolutionary Sonic Ecosystem

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Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2001)

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This paper describes an Artificial Life system for music composition. An evolving ecology of sonic entities populate a virtual world and compete for limited resources. Part of their genetic representation permits the creatures to make and listen to sounds. Complex musical and sonic relationships can develop as the creatures use sound to aid in their survival and mating prospects.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria, 3800, Australia

    Jon McCormack

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, 74601, Opava, Czech Republic

    Jozef Kelemen  & Petr Sosík  & 

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McCormack, J. (2001). Eden: An Evolutionary Sonic Ecosystem. In: Kelemen, J., Sosík, P. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2159. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44811-X_13

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