Electro/Acoustic Improvisation and Deeply Listening Machines

Journal of New Music Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 303-324

  van Nort, Doug ^a   Oliveros, Pauline ^a   Braasch, Jonas ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

aesthetics; interfaces; machine composition; machine learning; performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890769745     PISSN: 09298215     EISSN: 17445027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09298215.2013.860465     Document Type: Article

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