Origins.Everyone loves an origin story.
Musebots are the brainchild of Ollie Bown and Arne Eigenfeldt, two longtime designers of live generative music systems. Ben Carey wrote the original Max code. |
Musical MetacreationThere has been a lot of work in making musical systems more intelligent. But, its been hard to share their ideas or their code, or work out ways that their systems might be incorporated into creative workflows. Musebots, by contrast, are small modular units that are designed to be shared and studied by others. By making collaboration central, the Musebot project forces us to be transparent in how our systems work.
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Open SourceA defining goal of the musebot project is to establish a creative platform for experimenting with musical autonomy, open to people developing cutting-edge music intelligence, or simply exploring the creative potential of generative processes in music.
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Interested in building a musebot, or running them on your computer, or simply want to know more? Jump in!
Original Musebot Designers
Ollie Bown
Ollie Bown is a researcher and maker working with creative technologies. He is interested in how artists, designers and musicians can use advanced computing technologies to produce complex creative works. His current active research areas include media multiplicites, musical metacreation, the theories and methodologies of computational creativity, new interfaces for musical expression, and multi-agent models of social creativity.
www.olliebown.com/ |
Arne Eigenfeldt
Arne Eigenfeldt is a composer of live electroacoustic music, and a researcher into intelligent generative music systems. His music has been performed around the world, and his collaborations range from Persian Tar masters to contemporary dance companies to musical robots. He is a co-director of Metacreation Lab at Simon Fraser University, where he is a Professor of Music and Technology.
aeigenfeldt.wordpress.com |
Ben Carey
Benjamin Carey is a Sydney-based saxophonist, composer and technologist with interests in contemporary classical, interactive, improvised and electro-acoustic music. Ben’s recent research and practice incorporates equal parts composition, performance and the development of musical software systems.
www.bencarey.net |