Wolfgang: “emotions” plus goals enable learning

The paper presents design motivations for a system called WOLFGANG which composes tonal monodies. The investigated problem concerns the definition of the evaluation criteria guiding Wolfgang´s compositional processing and learning. This work is derived from the hypothesis that a system´s innate sense of (musical) sound strongly influences the development of its perception, as well as composing habits. As the system develops its musical skills, it also develops a subjective use of a musical language biased by its sense of musical sounds, and its adaptation to the cultural musical grammar of its environment