SPAA- AN AGENT BASED INTERACTIVE COMPOSITION

An interactive composition for flute and computer is presented, entitled SPAA. This piece uses an interactive composition environment that makes use of an intelligent agent to realise the computer part. This agent plays back samples of the live flute, with appropriate transformations, in order to achieve a predetermined musical structure. The agent decides which samples to play, and what signal processing to apply by analysing its ’ recent output combined with the live flute part. 1

SPAA- AN AGENT BASED INTERACTIVE COMPOSITION

An interactive composition for flute and computer is presented, entitled SPAA. This piece uses an interactive composition environment that makes use of an intelligent agent to realise the computer part. This agent plays back samples of the live flute, with appropriate transformations, in order to achieve a predetermined musical structure. The agent decides which samples to play, and what signal processing to apply by analysing its ’ recent output combined with the live flute part. 1