Creative Evolutionary Systems

5 GenJam: Evolution of a Jazz Improviser

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generators are smart enough, testing is redundant. This is the case when GenJam

trades fours, but only if the human performer gives GenJam good fours to mu-

tate. In such a case, however, one could argue that the search is so directed as to

be not a search at all, but rather a direct, albeit stochastic mapping from prob-

lem to solution. This is the logical endpoint for GenJam's evolution because

what started as a search of a huge and ill-understood melodic space ends up as a

process that reliably develops human melodic fragments in pleasing ways. An- ...