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Computer Music Composition Using Crowdsourcing And Genetic Algorithms, Jessica Faith Keup
Computer Music Composition Using Crowdsourcing And Genetic Algorithms, Jessica Faith Keup
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When genetic algorithms (GA) are used to produce music, the results are limited by a fitness bottleneck problem. To create effective music, the GA needs to be thoroughly trained by humans, but this takes extensive time and effort. Applying online collective intelligence or "crowdsourcing" to train a musical GA is one approach to solve the fitness bottleneck problem. The hypothesis was that when music was created by a GA trained by a crowdsourced group and music was created by a GA trained by a small group, the crowdsourced music would be more effective and musically sound. When a group of …