Evolutionary computer music

Front Matter; An Introduction to Evolutionary Computing for Musicians; Evolutionary Computation for Musical Tasks; Evolution in Digital Audio Technology; Evolution in Creative Sound Design; Experiments in Generative Musical Performance with a Genetic Algorithm; Composing with Genetic Algorithms: GenDash; Improvizing with Genetic Algorithms: GenJam; Cellular Automata Music: From Sound Synthesis to Musical Forms; Swarming and Music; Computational Evolutionary Musicology; Back Matter.
Focuses on the application of evolutionary computation and artificial life techniques to music. Written by leading pioneers in the field, this work features chapters on the interplay between Evolutionary Computation and Music.