Creative Computing Processes: Musical Composition

This paper addresses the problem of understanding the creative process in creative computing. It describes the levels of abstraction that operate in the process of musical composition. It examines the operation of these levels in the composition of Secret Garden, an installation piece by Martin Rieser and Andrew Hugill. It presents a graph-theoretic model of the creative process of that work, building on the research of Zedan, Cau, Westendorf, Buss, Hugill and Thomas. It suggests how this might be applied in creative computing.