Index

List of Contributors

PART I GROUNDING ALGORITHMIC MUSIC

1.   Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages, and Partners: A Perspective
     Alex McLean and Roger T. Dean

2.   Algorithmic Music and the Philosophy of Time Julian Rohrhuder

3.   Action and Perception: Embodying Algorithms and the Extended Mind
     Palle Dahlstedt

4.   Origins of Algorithmic Thinking in Music 
     Nick Collins

5.   Algorithmic Thinking and Central Javanese Gamelan 
     Charles Matthews

Perspectives on Practice A

6.   Thoughts on Composing with Algorithms 
     Laurie Spiegel

7.   Mexico and India: Diversifying and Expanding the Live Coding Community
     Alexandra Cârdenas

8.   Deautomatization of Breakfast Perceptions 
     Renate Wieser

9.    Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise?
     George E. Lewis

PART II WHAT CAN ALGORITHMS IN MUSIC DO?

10.  Compositions Created with Constraint Programming 
     Torsten Anders

11.  Linking Sonic Aesthetics with Mathematical Theories 
     Andrew J. Milne

12.  The Machine Learning Algorithm as Creative Musical Tool 
     Rebecca Fiebrink and Baptiste Caramiaux

13  Biologically Inspired and Agent-Based Algorithms for Music 
     Alice Eldridge and Oliver Bown

14.  Performing with Patterns of Time 
     Thor Magnusson and Alex McLean

15.  Computational Creativity and Live Algorithms
     Fernat Wiggins and Jamie Forth

16.  Tensions and Techniques in Live Coding Performance 
     Charles Roberts and Graham Wakefield 

Perspectives on Practice B

17.  When Algorithms Meet Machines 
     Sarah Angliss

18.  Notes on Pattern Synthesis: 1983 to 2013 
     Mark Fell

19.  Performing Algorithms Kristin 
     Grace Erickson

PART III PURPOSES OF ALGORITHMS FOR THE
MUSIC MAKER

20.  Network Music and the Algorithmic Ensemble
     David Ogborn

21.  Sonification ≠ Music 
     Carla Scaletti

22.  Colour Is the Keyboard: Case Studies in Transcoding Visual to Sonic
     Margaret Schedel

23.  Designing Interfaces for Musical Algorithms 
     Jamie Bullock

24.  Ecooperatic Music Game Theory 
     David Kanaca

25.  Algorithmic Spatialization 
     Jan C. Schacher

Perspectives on Practice C

26.  Form, Chaos, and the Nuance of Beauty 
     Mileece I'Anson

27.  Beyond Me 
     Kaffe Matthews

28.  Perspective on Practice 
     Jan Beran

29.  Thoughts on an Algorithmic Practice 
     Warren Burt

PART IV ALGORITHMIC CULTURE

30.  The Audience Reception of Algorithmic Music 
     Mary Simoni

31.  Technology, Creativity, and the Social in Algorithmic Music 
     Christopher Haworth

32.  Algorithms and Computation in Music Education 
     Andrew Brown

33.  (Micro)Politics of Algorithmic Music: Towards a Tactical Media 
     Archaeology
     Geoff Cox and Morten Riis

34.  Algorithmic Music for Mass Consumption and Universal 
     Production
     Yuli Lf.vtov

Perspectives on Practice D

35.  Algorithmic Trajectories
     Alex McLean and Roger T. Dean 

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