Excerpts from Ant Music and Zoion

Excerpts from Ant Music and Zoion

These excerpts illustrate the discussion of Ant Music and Zoion in "Automated Composition from Computer Models of Biological Behavior," by Stephen Brooks and Brian Ross.

Read the abstract here; for the full article, see Leonardo Music Journal Volume 6 (1996), available from the MIT Press.

Ant Music (part I), by Brian Ross

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Ant Music (part II), by Brian Ross

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Zoion, by Stephen Brooks

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