A Multi-Agent Emotional Society Whose Melodies Represent its Emergent Social Hierarchy and Are Generated by Agent Communications

Alexis Kirke () and Eduardo Miranda ()
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Alexis Kirke: http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/
Eduardo Miranda: http://neuromusic.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2015, vol. 18, issue 2, 16

Abstract: In this article a multi-agent system is presented which generates melody pitch sequences with a hierarchical structure. The agents have no explicit melodic intelligence and generate the pitches as a result of artificial emotional influence and communication between agents, and the melody’s hierarchical structure is a result of the emerging agent social structure. The system is not a mapping from multi-agent interaction onto musical features, but actually utilizes music for the agents to communicate artificial emotions. Each agent in the society learns its own growing tune during the interaction process. Experiments are presented demonstrating that diverse and non-trivial melodies can be generated, as well as a hierarchical musical structure.

Keywords: Social Networks; Music; Emotion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03-31
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