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=Human vs Computer Creativity: Music=
 
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<br>The seven videos linked here come from the multipart symposium on Human vs Computer Creativity, moderated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter Douglas R. Hofstadter] in the autumn of 1997. The series was sponsored by the [https://ccarh.org Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities], primarily under the guidance of Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Video-taping was provided by Stanford Television for closed-circuit transmission. Links given here contained filmed material transferred from its VHS recordings and are made available by [https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/21701 ScholarWorks] at Indiana University.  Most segments are roughly 90 minutes long.   
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<br>The seven videos linked here come from the multipart symposium on Human vs Computer Creativity, moderated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter Douglas R. Hofstadter] in the autumn of 1997. The series was sponsored by the [https://ccarh.org Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities], primarily under the guidance of Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Video-taping was provided by Stanford Television for closed-circuit transmission. Links given here are made available by [https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/21701 ScholarWorks] at Indiana University.  Each segment is roughly 90 minutes long.   
  
 
==Musical creativity==
 
==Musical creativity==

Revision as of 03:51, 26 March 2024

Human vs Computer Creativity: Music


The seven videos linked here come from the multipart symposium on Human vs Computer Creativity, moderated by Douglas R. Hofstadter in the autumn of 1997. The series was sponsored by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, primarily under the guidance of Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Video-taping was provided by Stanford Television for closed-circuit transmission. Links given here are made available by ScholarWorks at Indiana University. Each segment is roughly 90 minutes long.

Musical creativity

Musical Composition Part One

Musical Composition Part Two

Musical Composition Part Three

Musical Composition Part Four

Musical Composition Part Five

Musical Composition Part Six

Musical Composition Part Seven


Other segments of this series include:
* Chess and Go (two segments)
* Language and Literature (two segments)
* Jokes and Humor (one segment)
* The Big Picture (comprehensive wrap-up, three segments)
A detailed list of individual items is here.

International Musicological Society: Computational Musicology

In 1987 the president of the International Musicological Society asked Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who had offered a session on emerging computer tools for musical study at their five-year congress in Bologna, to form a study group to explore broader use and international cooperation. This was no small order, because these were the early years of personal computer use and most projects reporting at the time were running on mainframe computers.

Among the challenges were mechanisms for interacting cross continents, each of which had its own pattern of seasons, holidays, and academic sessions. Although the challenges were never fully met, we did succeed in forming a loosely knit group with participants from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, and Australia. A high priority was the collection of documentation on existing systems of music representation. This led in time to the publication (1997) of Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes was published by The MIT Press.

Selfridge-Field, with various collaborators, organized substantial sessions for the IMS congresses of 1992 (Barcelona), 1997 (London), 2002 (Leuven), 2007 (Zurich), and 2012 (Rome). Although the name of the study group changed from time to time, the core participants flowly easily from one venue and year to another. These gatherings are itemized separately below. At the end of the Rome congress, Frans Wiering took over the coordination of the group. For current information see this link.