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Bithoven: Gödel encoding of chamber music and functional 8-bit audio synthesis

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FARM 2016: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling, and Design

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2975980.2975981

Published: 10 September 2016 Publication History

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Bithoven is a prolific composer of approximately 1.079363 * 10^239 different compositions based on four-part harmony and basic chord progressions. It is combined with a purely functional audio synthe- sis engine based on the Ricoh RP2A03, found in the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The synthesis engine is parameter- ized over a band of instruments and styles of play, so each com- position can be played in one of approximately 4.22234 * 10^41 different arrangements or "NEStrations".

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Bithoven: Gödel encoding of chamber music and functional 8-bit audio synthesis
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Specialized information retrieval
      1. Multimedia and multimodal retrieval
        Music retrieval

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FARM 2016: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling, and Design

September 2016

63 pages

ISBN:9781450344326

DOI:10.1145/2975980

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David Janin,
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