area served worldwide founder s francisco vico industry music services on line music royalty free music music based mobile apps slogan s music for everybody everything website melomics.com advertising none registration optional available in english launched july 2012 current status active melomics media showroom at andalusia technology park melomics derived from genomics of melodies is a computational system for the automatic composition of music with no human intervention based on bioinspired algorithms . 1 contents 1 technological aspects 2 computer clusters 2.1 melomics109 the largest repository of popular music 2.2 iamus first album of professional contemporary music by a non human intelligence 3 applications 4 external links 5 references technological aspects edit melomics applies an evolutionary approach to music composition i.e. music pieces are obtained by simulated evolution . these themes compete to better adapt to a proper fitness function generally grounded on formal and aesthetic criteria . the melomics system encodes each theme in a genome and the entire population of music pieces undergoes evo devo dynamics i.e. pieces read out mimicking a complex embryological development process . 2 3 4 5 the system is fully autonomous once programmed it composes music without human intervention . this technology has been transferred to industry as an academic spin off melomics media which has provided and reprogrammed a new computer cluster that created a huge collection of popular music . the results of this evolutionary computation are being stored in melomics site 6 which nowadays constitutes a vast repository of music content . a differentiating feature is that pieces are available in three types of formats playable mp3 editable midi and musicxml and readable score in pdf . computer clusters edit the melomics computational system includes two computer clusters melomics109 and iamus dedicated to popular and artistic music respectively . 2 7 melomics109 the largest repository of popular music edit melomics109 is cluster programmed and integrated in the melomics system . 8 its first product is a vast repository of popular music compositions roughly 1 billion covering all essential styles . in addition to mp3 all songs are available in editable formats midi ; 9 and music is licensed under cc0 meaning that it is freely downloadable . 8 10 0music is the first album published by melomics109 which is available in mp3 and midi formats under cc0 license . it has been argued that by making such amount of editable original and royalty free music accessible to people melomics may accelerate the process of commoditization of music and change the way music is composed and consumed in the future . 1 9 10 iamus first album of professional contemporary music by a non human intelligence edit in the first stages of the development of the melomics system iamus composed opus one on october 15 2010 arguably the first fragment of professional contemporary classical music ever composed by a computer in its own style rather than attempting to emulate the style of existing composers . the first full composition also in contemporary classic style hello world premiered exactly one year after the creation of opus one on october 15 2011 . four later works premiered on july 2 2012 and were broadcast live 11 from the school of computer science at universidad de m laga 12 as part of the events included in the alan turing year . the compositions performed at this event were later recorded by the london symphony orchestra creating iamus eponymous first album which new scientist reported as the first complete album to be composed solely by a computer and recorded by human musicians . 13 commenting on the quality and authenticity of the music stephen smoliar critic of classical music at the san francisco examiner commented what is primary is the act of making the music itself engaged by the performers and how the listener responds to what those performers do ... what is most interesting about the documents generated by iamus is their capacity to challenge the creative talents of performing musicians . 14 applications edit melomics empathic music has been tested in a number of therapeutic clinical trials 15 16 17 18 evidencing positive effects in reducing fear of heights acute stress and pain perception . one of the studies resulted in a reduction of almost two thirds of pain perception in children s prick test as compared to the standard procedure . 18 some of these experiments made use of mobile free apps to adapt music to daily activity 19 like jogging 20 or commuting 21 but also for therapeutic use like lessen stress before an exam 22 for chronic pain 23 insomnia 24 and to help children to initiate sleep . 25 the way melomics can adapt music in real time to the physiological evolution of the listener and to music branding has also been reported . 10 26 external links edit melomics homepage melomics page at university of malaga spain references edit wikimedia commons has media related to melomics logos and screenshots . a b smith sylvia 3 january 2013 . iamus is this the 21st century s answer to mozart . bbc news technology . a b s nchez c ; moreno f ; albarracin d ; fernandez jd ; vico fj 2013 . melomics a case study of ai in spain pdf . ai magazine . 34 3 99 103 . stieler wolfgang 2012 . die mozart maschine . technology review germany . december 26 35 . ball philip 2012 . algorithmic rapture . nature . 188 456 . doi 10.1038 488458a . fernandez jd ; vico fj 2013 . ai methods in algorithmic composition a comprehensive survey pdf . journal of artificial intelligence research . 48 513 582 . melomics.com . retrieved 6 december 2011 . ball philip 8 august 2014 . artificial music the computers that create melodies . bbc future . a b lenhart christian 13 january 2013 . die mozart maschine . taz.de . a b peckham matt 4 january 2013 . finally a computer that writes contemporary music without human help . time magazine . a b c bosker bianca 13 january 2013 . life as francisco vico creator of the incredible computer composer iamus . the huffington post . ball philip 1 july 2012 . iamus classical music s computer composer live from malaga . the guardian . retrieved 2 july 2012 . school of computer science university of malaga spain 2012 07 02 . can machines be creative live from malaga . youtube . retrieved 2012 10 05 . computer composer honours turing s centenary . new scientist . 5 july 2012 . smoliar stephen 4 january 2013 . thoughts about iamus and the composition of music by computer . the examiner . accessed 10 january 2013 . caparros gonzalez r ; torre luque a ; buela casal g ; vico f 20 22 july 2015 . 10th international conference on child and adolescent psychopathology . melomics relaxing music for premature infants preliminary results testing its effects on physiological parameters . university of roehampton london . torre luque a ; caparros gonzalez r ; bastard t ; buela casal g ; vico f 14 16 november 2014 . 7th international congress of clinical psychology . effects of relaxing music listening after the exposure to acute stress within laboratory settings . seville . seinfeld s ; slater m ; vico f ; sanchez vives m 1 5 august 2014 . 120th apa convention . the influence of relaxing music on anxiety induced by fear of heights in an immersive virtual reality experience pdf . seville . a b requena g ; sanchez c ; corzo higueras jl ; reyes alvarado s ; rivas ruiz f ; vico f ; raglio a 2014 . melomics music medicine m3 to lessen pain perception during pediatric prick test procedure . pediatric allergy and immunology . doi 10.1111 pai .12263 . melomics apps . google play . retrieved 21 june 2015 . sports free . google play . retrieved 21 june 2015 . commuting free . google play . retrieved 21 june 2015 . school free . google play . retrieved 21 june 2015 . chronic pain . google play . retrieved 21 june 2015 . fall asleep for adults . google play . retrieved 21 june 2015 . fall asleep for kids . google play . retrieved 21 june 2015 . music applications . universidad de malaga . retrieved 26 november 2014 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title melomics & oldid 681725614 categories biotechnologymusic technologyevolutionary algorithmsspanish supercomputing network navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 19 september 2015 at 03 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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