Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-10-2025
Abstract
“The Third Man” is the latest in a series of pieces, spanning fifteen years of iteration, for solo fretless guitar and “automatic improvisation” software. Prior works in the series have been performed throughout the United States, many of them at the New York City Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit between 2016 and 2024. The author serves as the principal performer/composer and programmer of this and prior works, which has enabled the progressive refinement of generative techniques to support very personal compositional aesthetics and performance practices. Setting aside the stylistic idiosyncrasies they serve, details of the relatively simple generative techniques used in “The Third Man” are the main focus of this article.
Comments
This article was originally published as part of the proceedings of the 6th Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC 2025), Brussels, Belgium, September 10-12, 2025, available at https://zenodo.org/records/17306251
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