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An interactive music composition and performance system is a real-time composing and sound-producing system which employs a synthesizer, a programmable computer, and at least one performance device and which functions automatically to generate controls which determine the course of the musical compo

An interactive music composition and performance system is a real-time composing and sound-producing system which employs a synthesizer, a programmable computer, and at least one performance device and which functions automatically to generate controls which determine the course of the musical composition it plays as well as the nature of the sound it produces. The system is interactive in that a user can direct aspects of the system\s production of music, as he or she hears it being produced, by use of a performance device. If the user does not provide an input, the system proceeds automatically to compose music and produce sound.

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Interactive method of generating music employing a synthesizer; a programmable computer coupled to said synthesizer and capable of storing and running a program containing a music and sound control algorithm for generating music and sound control data in real time to be provided to said synthesizer

Interactive method of generating music employing a synthesizer; a programmable computer coupled to said synthesizer and capable of storing and running a program containing a music and sound control algorithm for generating music and sound control data in real time to be provided to said synthesizer and a performance algorithm for generating and interpreting performance control data; and at least one human-performer input device producing a signal in response to a physical music-performing gesture by a human performer; comprising the steps of: generating said music and sound control data in said computer to produce an ongoing, real-time, at least partially non-predeterminable musical composition; automatically supplying said music and sound control data from said computer to said synthesizer in accordance with said performance algorithm; scanning the signal from said human-performer input device at periodic intervals to determine whether said human performer is performing said gesture; if said signal indicates occurrence of said music-performance gesture, then altering said automatic performance algorithm in accordance with said signal and supplying said performance control data according to the altered performance algorithm; and producing audible music from said synthesizer, as determined by said performance, music, and sound control data, as audible feedback to said performer.