[alife] Evolutionary Computer Music

[Alexis Kirke]

Dear colleagues,

Apologies for cross posting. This announcement may be relevant to the
Alife
community, especially those colleagues interested in music, and in the
evolution of sound systems in general.

We would like to announce the publication of the book, "Evolutionary
Computer Music", edited by Miranda & Biles, for Springer. Table of
contents
are as follows:

- Foreword by David Goldberg

- Preface by the Editors

- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Evolutionary Computing for Musicians
By Phil Husbands, Peter Copley, Alice Eldrigde, James Mandelis

- Chapter 2: Evolutionary Computation for Musical Tasks
By John Al Biles

- Chapter 3: Evolution in Digital Audio Technology
By Andrew Horner

- Chapter 4: Evolution in Creative Sound Design
By Palle Dahlstedt

- Chapter 5: Experiments in Generative Musical Performance with a
Genetic
Algorithm 
By Qijun Zhang, Eduardo R Miranda

- Chapter 6: Composing with Genetic Algorithms: GenDash
By Rodney Wascha II

- Chapter 7: Improvising with Genetic Algorithms: GenJam
By John Al Biles

- Chapter 8: Cellular Automata Music: From Sound Synthesis to Musical
Forms
By Eduardo R Miranda

- Chapter 9: Swarming and Music
By Tim Blackwell

- Chapter 10: Computational Evolutionary Musicology
By Eduardo R Miranda and Peter M Todd

The book comes with an accompanying MUSIC CD (*not* data/software
CD-ROM),
featuring a number of pieces composed based on some of the evolutionary
computation methods discussed in the book.

Webpage at Springer:

http://www.springer.com/uk/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=3-40109-22-
1736
74005-0

yours sincerely,
Alexis Kirke