Winners in sonic experiment prosper and evolve, losers become extinct
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After creating a sample pool of 100 audio loops, web-based public consumers were recruited to rate the appeal of the tones (Photo: Dr MacCallum)
Researchers from Imperial College London have built a music creation engine where popular sounds are paired and mated with other successful tunes to create new offspring that inherit features from both parents (Photo: Dr MacCallum)
Consumers are asked to rate each audio loop, when a batch has received scores the popular ones are allowed to reproduce and the losers become extinct (Photo: Dr MacCallum)
6,931 consumers had registered 85,533 ratings over the course of 2,513 generations of evolution, resulting in 50,480 loops being born by the time the research paper was published (Photo: Dr MacCallum)
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Researchers from Imperial College London have built a music creation engine where popular sounds are paired and mated with other successful tunes to create new offspring that inherit features from both parents. Audio loops that fail to please become extinct, parents die off and children get the same rating treatment given to their ancestors. Over time, some rather pleasant electronica has formed without so much as one human composer in sight.
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