At this year's MCM conference, Jordan Smith and I will be co-presenting our paper with Alexandre François and Elaine Chew, "Emergent Formal Structures of Factor Oracle-Driven Musical Improvisations." This article investigates the formal structure of several improvisations I performed by interacting with Mimi: a number of formal analyses of these performances are presented, after which several typical structures (such as rondo- and canon-like structures) are observed. Finally, potential reasons for the emergence of these structures are discussed.

The 3rd International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM 2011) takes place on June 15-17, 2011 at IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music in Paris, France.