Guest Speaker: Anthony Prechtl

Anthony Prechtl from Open University will give a guest talk to the group.

Anthony Prechtl will present a musical feature based approach to automatic music generation in computer games to the Mixed Reality Laboratory during the weekly meeting. In this talk Anthony will discuss an approach to automatically generating music for computer games. The broad idea is to algorithmically generate music based on a set of high-level musical features, and vary them in response to game events and variables. He will demonstrate a working example in a short first-person maze game designed in Unity, and describe an evaluative study that shows how the approach led to more enjoyable and more intense game playing experiences compared to other conditions.