Musical morphologies from self‐organizing systems

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Self‐organization refers to the spontaneous formation of macroscopic structures in processes where many elements interact on the microscopic level in the absence of a central force guiding overall behaviour and in continuous interaction with the environment. Decision making happens only locally but gives rise to complex global oscillatory phenomena. Self‐organization is suggested as a powerful alternative to the constructivist approach in musical composition. Inspired by examples in non‐linear physics in general, and inorganic chemistry in particular, we provide results of computer simulations of self‐organizing processes. This text is partially based on a paper presented at the First European Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence, Genova, 1989.

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