Dynamic Game Soundtrack Generation in Response to a Continuously Varying Emotional Trajectory

Williams D, Kirke A, Eaton J, Miranda E, Daly I, Hallowell J, Roesch E, Hwang F, Nasuto SJ. Dynamic Game Soundtrack Generation in Response to a Continuously Varying Emotional Trajectory. In: AES Conference: 56th International Conference: Audio for Games. Audio Engineering Society; 2015. Paper 2-2. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17593

@inproceedings{Williams2015_17593,
  author = {Williams, Duncan and Kirke, Alexis and Eaton, Joel and Miranda, Eduardo and Daly, Ian and Hallowell, James and Roesch, Etienne and Hwang, Faustina and Nasuto, Slawomir J.},
  title = {{Dynamic Game Soundtrack Generation in Response to a Continuously Varying Emotional Trajectory}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 56th International Conference: Audio for Games},
  note = {Paper 2-2},
  year = {2015},
  month = feb,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17593}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Dynamic Game Soundtrack Generation in Response to a Continuously Varying Emotional Trajectory
AU  - Williams, Duncan
AU  - Kirke, Alexis
AU  - Eaton, Joel
AU  - Miranda, Eduardo
AU  - Daly, Ian
AU  - Hallowell, James
AU  - Roesch, Etienne
AU  - Hwang, Faustina
AU  - Nasuto, Slawomir J.
T2  - AES Conference: 56th International Conference: Audio for Games
M1  - Paper 2-2
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/02/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17593
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Dynamic soundtracking presents various practical and aesthetic challenges to composers working with games. This paper presents an implementation of a system addressing some of these challenges with an affectively-driven music generation algorithm based on a second order Markov-model. The system can respond in real-time to emotional trajectories derived from 2-dimensions of affect on the circumplex model (arousal and valence), which are mapped to five musical parameters. A transition matrix is employed to vary the generated output in continuous response to the affective state intended by the gameplay.
ER  -