Music and Connectionism [Hardcover]

Peter M. Todd (Editor), Gareth Loy (Editor)

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Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press (Oct 9 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262200813
ISBN-13: 978-0262200813
Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 18.5 x 2.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 821 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,936,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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As one of our highest expressions of thought and creativity, music has always been a difficult realm to capture, model, and understand. The connectionist paradigm, now beginning to provide insights into many realms of human behavior, offers a new and unified viewpoint from which to investigate the subtleties of musical experience. Music and Connectionism provides a fresh approach to both fields, using the techniques of connectionism and parallel distributed processing to look at a wide range of topics in music research, from pitch perception to chord fingering to composition.The contributors, leading researchers in both music psychology and neural networks, address the challenges and opportunities of musical applications of network models. The result is a current and thorough survey of the field that advances understanding of musical phenomena encompassing perception, cognition, composition, and performance, and in methods for network design and analysis.Peter M. Todd is a doctoral candidate in the PDP Research Group of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. Gareth Loy is an award-winning composer, a lecturer in the Music Department of the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the technical staff of Frox Inc.Contributors. Jamshed J. Bharucha. Peter Desain. Mark Dolson. Robert Gjerclingen. Henkjan Honing. B. Keith Jenkins. Jacqueline Jons. Douglas H. Keefe. Tuevo Kohonen. Bernice Laden. Pauli Laine. Otto Laske. Marc Leman. J. P. Lewis. Christoph Lischka. D. Gareth Loy. Ben Miller. Michael Mozer. Samir I. Sayegh. Hajime Sano. Todd Soukup. Don Scarborough. Kalev Tiits. Peter M. Todd. Kari Torkkola.

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Peter M. Todd is Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and Psychology at Indiana University.

Gareth Loy is a musician and award-winning composer. He has published widely and, during a long and successful career at the cutting edge of multimedia computing, has worked as a researcher, lecturer, programmer, software architect, and digital systems engineer. He is President of Gareth, Inc., a provider of software engineering and consulting services internationally.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for using Neural Networks to compose music., Mar 17 1999

By Uri <noony@sitcom.co.il> - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Music and Connectionism (Hardcover)

Neural Networks are becoming more and more popular these days, and it's interesting to learn one can use them to compose music. The authors of this book did this with some success.
If you are interested in Neural Networks, and in computer composed music - this is the book for you. There are various articles by different authors on this subject. All the articles appeared in the computer music journal in 1989.

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