connectionist models of music

[Peter Todd]

In answer to Derek Gross's question about connectionist models of music, I
wanted to point out that the current and next issues of the Computer Music
Journal (MIT Press) are specifically devoted to this topic.  In the current
issue, 13(3), out now, there is a general tutorial on musical applications of
networks, plus articles on network models of pitch perception, tonal analysis,
quantization of time, complex musical patterns, and instrument fingering.  In
the next issue, 13(4), due out at the end of the year, there will be articles
on my work using sequential networks for composition, modelling tonal
expectancy (with Jamshed Bharucha, who has also published much work in the
area of network modelling of human musical behavior), and another article on
representations for pitch perception.  Both issues were edited by D. Gareth
Loy, of UC San Diego, and myself; the journal is available in some bookstores.
Hope this helps--

               peter todd
               stanford university
               psychology department