Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to present Robin, an algorithmic
composer specifically designed for interactive situations.
Users can interact in real time with the algorithmic
composition by means of control strategies based on
emotions. This study aims at providing a system for automatic
music generation to be applied to interactive systems for
music creation targeted at non-musicians. Robin adopts a rulebased approach to compose original tonal music in classical
piano style. The first practical application of Robin is The
Music Room, an interactive installation which enables people
to compose tonal music in pairs by communicating emotion
expressed by moving throughout a room.