Applications of System Dynamics Modelling to Computer Music

Whalley, Ian

2000

Organised Sound 5(3): 149-157.

Language: English

Based on a composer's psycho-acoustic imagination or response to music, system dynamics modelling and simulation tools can be used as a scoring device to map the structural dynamic shape of interest of computer music compositions. The tools can also be used as a generator of compositional ideas reflecting thematic juxtaposition and emotional flux in musical narratives. These techniques allow the modelling of everyday narratives to provide a structural/metaphorical means of music composition based on archetypes that are shared with wider audiences. The methods are outlined using two examples. (An ICMC 2000 Workshop Paper - Cognition and Perception of Computer Music.)