<:> Early Cope

In his work with the EMI system (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), David Cope has explored a variety of generative methods.

His basic approach uses `recombinance' with `voice leading' and `texture matching'.

Assemble a database of compositions, chop them up into musically meaningful units and recombine so as to enforce voice and texture continuities.

Results may be quite good `locally' but often lack higher-level structure.