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Book Chapters

  • Miranda, E. R. (2005). "Musique de la Vie Artificiel", L. Poissant (Ed.), Art et Biotechnologies. Montreal, Canada: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec.

  • Todd, P. and Miranda, E. R. (2005). "Putting some (artificial) life into models of musical creativity", I. Deliege and G, Wiggins (Eds.), Musical creativity: Current research in theory and practice. London, UK: Psychology Press. (To appear)

  • Hellier, E. J., Weedon, B., Edworthy, J. and Walters, K. (2003). "Using psychophysics to design speech warnings". In E. C. Haas and J. Edworthy (Eds.), The Ergonomics of Sound. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, pp. 64-67.

Journal Papers

  • Miranda, E. R. (2006). "Artificial Phonology: On Synthesising Disembodied Humanoid Voice for Composing Music with Surreal Languages", Leonardo Music Journal, 15 (Accepted for publication).

  • Miranda, E. R. (2005). "Brain-Computer Interfacing for Musical Composition and Performance", In International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. (To appear)

  • Miranda, E. R. and Matthias, J. (2005). "Granular Sampling using a Pulse-Coupled Network of Spiking Neurons", In F. Rothlauf et al. (Eds.) EvoWorkshops 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3449, pp. 539-544. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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  • Miranda, E. R. and Brouse, A. (2005). "Interfacing the Brain Directly with Musical Systems: On developing systems for making music with brain signals ", Leonardo, 38(4):331-336.
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  • Valsamakis, N. and Miranda, E. R. (2005). "Iterative Sound Synthesis by means of Cross-Coupled Digital Oscillators", Digital Creativity. 16(2):79-92.
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  • Miranda, E. R., Roberts, S. and Stokes, M. (2004). "On Generating EEG for Controlling Musical Systems", Biomedizinische Technik, 49(1):75-76.
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  • Miranda, E. R. (2004). "At the Crossroads of Evolutionary Computation and Music: Self-Programming Synthesizers, Swarm Orchestras and the Origins of Melody", Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 12, No. 2. pp. 137-158.
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  • Miranda, E. R., Kirby, S. and Todd, P. (2003). "On Computational Models of the Evolution of Music: From the Origins of Musical Taste to the Emergence of Grammars", Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 91-111.
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  • Miranda, E. R., Sharman, K., Kilborn, K., Duncan, A. (2003). "On Harnessing the Electroencephalogram for the Musical Braincap", Computer Music Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 80-102.
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  • Miranda, E. R. (2003). "On the Music of Emergent Behaviour: What can Evolutionary Computation Bring to the Musician?", Leonardo, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 55-58.
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  • Miranda, E. R. (2003). "On the evolution of music in a society of self-taught digital creatures", Digital Creativity, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 29-42.
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  • Westerman, G. and Miranda, E. R. (2003). "Modelling the Development of Mirror Neurons for Auditory-Motor Integration", Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 367-375.
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  • Westerman, G. and Miranda, E. R. (2003). "A New Model of Sensorimotor Coupling in the Development of Speech", Brain and Language, Vol.82, No.2, pp.393-400.
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Conference Papers

  • Miranda, E. R. and Tikhanoff, V. (2005). "Musical Composition by an Autonomous Robot: An Approach to AIBO Interaction". Proceedings of TAROS 2005 - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, London (UK).
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  • Miranda, E. R. and Brouse, A. (2005). "Toward Direct-Computer Musical Interfaces", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME¹05), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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  • Miranda, E. R., Brouse, A., Boskamp, B. and Mullaney, H. (2005). "Plymouth Brain-Computer Music Interface Project: Intelligent Assistive Technology for Music-Making", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2005, Barcelona (Spain).
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  • Miranda, E. R. and Maia Jr., A. (2005). "Granular Synthesis of Sounds Through Markov Chains with Fuzzy Control", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2005, Barcelona (Spain).
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  • Miranda, E. R. and Zhang, Q. (2005). "Composition As Game Strategy: Making Music by Playing Board Games Against Evolved Artificial Neural Networks", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2005, Barcelona (Spain).
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  • Miranda, E. R., Manzolli, J. and Maia Jr, A. (2005). "Granular Synthesis of Sounds through Fuzzyfied Markov Chains", Proceedings of IX National Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Sao Paulo (Brazil).
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  • Alvaro, J. Miranda, E. and Barros, B. (2005). "EV Ontology: Multilevel Knowledge Representation and Programming", Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium of Musical Computation (SBCM), Belo Horizonte (Brazil).
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  • Coutinho, E., Miranda, E. R., and da Silva, P. (2005). "Evolving Emotional Behaviour for Expressive Performance of Music", Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005 (LNCS 3661 - 0497), Kos (Greece).
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  • Coutinho, E., Gimenes, M., Martins, J. and Miranda, E. R. (2005). "Computational Musicology: An Artificial Life Approach", Proceedings of the 2nd Portuguese Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms Workshop, Covilhã (Portugal).
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  • Coutinho, E. Miranda, E. R. and Cangelosi, A .(2005). "Towards a Model for Embodied Emotions", Proceedings of the Workshop on Affective Computing: Towards Affective Intelligent Systems (AC 2005), Covilhã (Portugal).
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  • Gimenes, M., Miranda, E. R. and Johnson, C. (2005). "On The Learning Stages Of An Intelligent Rhythmic Generator" (Submitted to conference).

  • Gimenes, M., Miranda, E. R. and Johnson, C. (2005). "A Memetic Approach to the Evolution of Rhythms in a Society of Software Agents", Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium of Musical Computation (SBCM), Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
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  • Gimenes, M., Miranda, E. R. and Johnson, C. (2005). "Towards an intelligent rhythmic generator based on given examples: a memetic approach", Proceedings of the Digital Music Research Network Summer Conference. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, (UK).
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  • Livingstone, D. and Miranda, E. (2005). "Orb3 ­ Adaptive Interface Design for Real time Sound Synthesis & Diffusion within Socially Mediated Spaces", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME'05), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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  • Livingstone, D. and Miranda, E. (2005). "ORB3 – Musical Robots within an Adaptive Social Composition System" Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2005, Barcelona (Spain).
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  • Livingstone, D. and O¹Shea, C. (2005). "Tactile Composition Systems for Collaborative Free Sound" Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2005, Barcelona (Spain).
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  • Martins, J. M. and Miranda, E. R. (2005). "Societies of rhythmic agents: A neural representation of rhythm", Proceedings of the 10th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW2005), Bilzen (Belgium)

  • Martins, J. M., Gimenes, M. , Manzolli, J. and Maia Jr, A. (2005). "Similarity Measures for Rhythmic Sequences", Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium of Musical Computation (SBCM), Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
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  • Miranda, E. R. (2004). "Artificial Life and the Evolution of Music", Proceedings of International Symposium on Music & Science, Coimbra, Portugal.

  • Beyls, P. (2004). "Cellular Automata Mapping Procedures". Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Miami (USA).
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  • Burraston, D., Edmonds, E., Livingstone, D. and Miranda, E. R. (2004). "Cellular Automata in MIDI based Computer Music". Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Miami (USA).
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  • Livingstone, D. and Miranda, E. R. (2004). "Composition for Ubiquitous Responsive Environments", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Miami (USA).
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  • Martins, J. P. M., Pereira, F., Miranda, E. R. and Cardoso, A. (2004). "Enhancing Sound Design with Conceptual Blending of Sound Descriptors", Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Creativity (CC'04) - European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR), Technical Report 142-04, pp. 243-255, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
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  • Miranda, E. R. (2003). "Musical Applications of Evolutionary Computing: From Sound Design to Evolutionary Musicology", Proceedings of Colloquium Past, Present and Future of Technology in Music, IPEM - Dept. of Musicology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, pp. 40-53.

  • Miranda, E. R. and Todd, P. M. (2003). "A-Life and Musical Composition: A Brief Survey", IX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music: Music as Emergent Behaviour, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, pp. 59-65.

  • Denham, S. L. (2003). "Perception of the direction of frequency sweeps in moving ripple noise stimuli", Proceedings of 6th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience - Symposium on Plasticity of the Central Auditory System and Processing of Complex Acoustic Signals, Prague, Czech Republic, Kluwer Academic.

  • Edworthy, J. and Hellier, E. J. (2003). "Urgency in speech warnings", Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Foundation ICBEN, Schiedam, The Netherlands, pp. 65-69.

  • Hamadicharef, B. and Ifeachor, E. C. (2003). "Objective Prediction of Sound Synthesis Quality", Proceedings of the 115th AES Convention, New York, USA, Preprint 5958.
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Book Reviews

  • Martins, J. M., Gimenes, M. and ZHANG, Q. (2005) Book Review: "Music Query. Methods, Models and User Studies" Edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Computing in Musicology. The MIT Press. Cambridge, 2004.
    [Leonardo on-line]