In this paper, we describe how we can generate music by simulating moves of artificial ants on a graph where vertices represent notes and edges represent possible transitions between notes. As ants can deposit pheromones on edges, they collectively build a melody which is a sequence of Midi events. Different parameter settings are tested to produce different styles of generated music with several instruments. We also introduce a mechanism that takes into account music files to initialize the pheromone matrix. © 2004 Springer-Verlag.
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Guéret, C., Monmarché, N., & Slimane, M. (2004). Ants can play music. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3172 LNCS, pp. 310–317). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28646-2_29
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