Self-Assembly of Musical Representations in MGS

Louis Bigo (1, 2) , Antoine Spicher (1)

1 LACL - Laboratoire d'Algorithmique Complexité et Logique
2 Repmus - Représentations musicales

In this paper, we apply morphogenetic processes, namely self-assembly processes, to compute automatically various abstract spaces that can be used to represent and analyze several well-known musical objects (sequence of chords, interval series, etc.). These constructions have been implemented in MGS, an unconventional programming language belonging to the family of spatial computing languages.

Mots clés: Self-assembly; abstract cellular complexes; MGS; rewriting; pattern matching; Hamiltonian and Eulerian path; pitch space; chord space; tonnetz; all interval series

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Son [cs.SD]

Louis Bigo, Antoine Spicher. Self-Assembly of Musical Representations in MGS. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 2014, 10 (3), pp.219-236. ⟨hal-02903099⟩