KES Transactions on Innovation in Music |
| Publisher |
Future Technology Press |
| Vol. 1 No. 1 |
Special Edition - Innovation in Music 2013 |
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| Article Title | Automated 'Wow' Generation In Musical Composition |
| Primary Author | Darrell Mann, Systematic Innovation Network |
| Other Author(s) |
Christopher Bradshaw
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| Pages |
158 - 169
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| Article ID |
im13bk-015 |
| Publication Date |
17-May-15 |
| Abstract | The paper reports research to identify and then reverse engineer what evokes a ‘wow’ emotional response in listeners of musical compositions. The results of this analysis have then been compared to a systematic innovation methodology built on the analysis of close to three million innovations observed from a wide spectrum of human endeavour in order to identify similarities and differences. The result of this analysis is the fact that all of the examined musical ‘wows’ could be seen to fit precisely into a very small number of established patterns of inventive thinking. A final section of the paper discusses the possibility that these inventive patterns can be built into software-based composition tools in such a way that new ‘wow’ moments can be generated in an at least partially automated fashion.
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