Composiç˜ao e Performance Musical Utilizando Agentes Móveis

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Abstract
Across the Centuries, musicians have always had interest in the latest scientific achievements and
have used the latest technologies of their time to produce musical material. Since the mid-20th
Century, the use of computing technology for music production and analysis has been increasingly
common among music researchers and composers. Continuing this trend, more recently, the use
of network technologies in the field of Computer Music turned out to be a natural research goal.
In this work, we investigate the use of mobile agent technology for the creation and performance
of music within a distributed computing environment.
We show that this technology has the
potential to foster new ways of composing, distributing, and performing music.
We define the concept of mobile musical agents, which are mobile agents that integrate a distributed
musical environment. Using this idea, we designed and implemented the Andante system,
an open-source infrastructure for the construction of distributed applications for music composition
and performance based on mobile musical agents. We also built two sample applications on
top of this infrastructure that were used by a composer.