Pilot: Assisted Musical Composition through Functional Scaffolding

试点：通过功能支架辅助音乐创作

• 批准号: 1002507
• 负责人: Kenneth Stanley
• 金额: $ 29.52万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1002507&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pilot; Assisted; Musical; Composition; through

As a ubiquitous creative endeavor across all human cultures, musical composition is an effective microcosm for the study of creativity in general. This project will impact computer science by showing through assisted musical composition how computers can genuinely improve upon the creative capabilities of humans alone. By introducing an interactive framework that enables even inexperienced users to realize their creative vision, this project also helps pave the way for such systems to amplify our creative potential in other areas in the future, such as in engineering and design. The technology that will be developed, called Functional Scaffolding for Musical Composition (FSMC), takes the unique approach of computing accompaniment for existing musical tracks (called the ?scaffold?) by generating special functions that take the scaffold as input and output accompanying tracks. In this way, generated tracks are in effect transformations of the scaffold, allowing them to inherit the global structure and implicit nuance of the preexisting music. The implication for computational creativity in general is thus to harness the richness of preexisting human-generated content as a seed for further elaboration. Furthermore, the user will be provided an interactive evolutionary interface that makes it possible to search the space of such transforming functions, in effect allowing the user to continually breed and elaborate new concepts that build upon preexisting incomplete works.The primary target audience for FSMC as a practical technology will be musicians who lack the resources, collaborators, or expertise to produce complete musical compositions. For example, while a hobbyist with a keyboard might be able to compose a compelling melody, lack of expertise in other instruments may prohibit adding accompanying guitar or base. In addition, even more experienced musicians may benefit from the capability to quickly propose accompaniment as a new means of concept generation. In fact, existing computer programs that aid in musical composition often register millions of downloads online, demonstrating broad public interest in applications that enhance musical creativity. In addition to dissemination through scientific conferences focusing on computational creativity, the results of this research will be released in a form compatible with such programs, thereby directly impacting the public with a practical utility and consequently raising awareness of the potential for artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance creativity in general.

作为在所有人类文化中无处不在的创造性努力，音乐创作是一般研究创造力的有效缩影。 该项目将通过通过辅助音乐组成来展示计算机如何真正提高人类创造力的能力来影响计算机科学。 通过引入一个互动框架，该框架甚至使没有经验的用户能够实现他们的创造力，该项目还为这种系统铺平了道路，以扩大我们将来在其他领域（例如工程和设计中）的创造力。 将开发的技术（称为音乐作品的功能脚手架（FSMC））通过生成以脚手架作为输入和伴随曲目的输出的特殊功能来采用现有音乐曲目（称为？脚手架？）的独特方法。 这样，生成的曲目实际上是脚手架的转换，使它们可以继承前来主义音乐的全局结构和隐含的细微差别。 因此，对计算创造力的含义总体上是为了利用先前存在的人类生成的内容作为进一步阐述的种子。 此外，将为用户提供一个交互式的进化界面，使搜索这种转型功能的空间实际上使用户能够不断繁殖并详细培养新概念，这些新概念是基于不完整的工作的主要目标。 例如，虽然拥有键盘的业余爱好者可能能够构成引人注目的旋律，但在其他乐器中缺乏专业知识可能会禁止添加随附的吉他或底座。 此外，即使是经验丰富的音乐家，也可能会从迅速提出伴奏作为概念的新手段的能力中受益。 实际上，有助于音乐作品的现有计算机程序经常在线注册数百万次下载，这表明了对增强音乐创造力的应用程序的广泛兴趣。 除了通过专注于计算创造力的科学会议传播外，这项研究的结果还将以与此类计划兼容的形式发布，从而直接通过实用的实用性影响公众，并因此提高人们对人工智能和机器学习的潜力以增强创造力的认识。