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Boden, M. A. 1996. "Artificial Genius." Discover 17: 104-107. Internet: http://discovermagazine.com/ 1996/ oct/ artificialgenius887
Burraston, D. 2006. Generative Music and Cellular Automata. Ph.D. thesis, University of Technology, Sydney. Internet: http://www.noyzelab.com/ research/ thesis.zip
Kim-Boyle, D. 2005. "Real-Time Generation of Open-Form Scores." Programming Languages and Runtime Systems Group Digital Art Weeks, DAW06. Internet: http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/ docs/ daw06proc/ posters/ kim_boyle-open_form_scores.pdf
Bulhak, A. C. 1996. "The Dada Engine." Internet: http://dev.null.org/ dadaengine/ manual-1.0/ dada_toc.html
Neumann, J. von. 1966. Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. A. W. Burks, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Internet: http://www.walenz.org/ vonNeumann/ index.html

PWGL (Laurson, M.): description
Critters (Wheat, A.): description
Wolfgang (Reicken, D.): description
Max/MSP (Cycling 74.): description
Java Music Specification Language (Didkovsky, N.): description

Agon, C. and M. Andreatta, G. Assayag, S. Schaub. 2004. "Formal Aspects of Iannis Xenakis' 'Symbolic Music': A Computer-Aided Exploration of Compositional Processes." Journal of New Music Research 33(2): 145-159.
Keller, D. and B. Ferneyhough. 2004. "Analysis by Modeling: Xenakis's ST/10-1 080262." Journal of New Music Research 33(2): 161-171.
Kuuskankare, M. 2009. "ENP: A System for Contemporary Music Notation." Contemporary Music Review 28(2): 221-235.
Anders, T. and E. R. Miranda. 2009. "Interfacing Manual and Machine Composition." Contemporary Music Review 28(2): 133-147.
Behrman, D. 1965. "What Indeterminate Notation Determines." Perspectives of New Music 3(2): 58-73.

"The characteristics of every sound depend on the way in which the sound was produced. Each art-form exploits its special production methods in order to endow the phenomena with unmistakable characteristics. Artistic economy demands that the means be appropriate to the end, and that the exploitation of the means be an end in itself."
Koenig, G. M. 1971. Summary Observations on Compositional Theory. Utrecht: Institute of Sonology.

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Total References 1987
