Generative Music: A Documentary

Generative music is any music where part of the compositional process is delegated to an agent other than the composer themself. This agent is often a computer, but can also be another human (such as an improviser), a machine or any other system capable of processing data and/or providing an output. This film explores the various forms of generative music, and through interviews and the filmmaker's own practice, attempts to evaluate the creative merit and overall value of such music. This film was written, directed and edited by Samuel Hollywood-Summers as part of his masters thesis for MDes Sound for the Moving Image at the School of Simulation and Visualisation (SimVis) at the Glasgow School of Art, 2017. Full credits are at the end of the film, and to be added below.