Real-time music generation engine for interactive systems

A method for generating real-time music in a music generation engine for an interactive system communicatively connected to said music generation engine to transmit parameters relating to music generation between them, wherein said music generation engine comprises a Musical Rule Set, MRS, unit, a Constructor Automaton, CA, and a Performance Cluster Unit, PCU, said method comprising:

• retrieving a predefined composer input in the MRS unit;
• storing a plurality of adaptable rule definitions according to the retrieved predefined composer input in a memory of the MRS unit;
• generating a musically asynchronous real-time control signal by a musically asynchronous real-time input device, RID, the real-time control signal being configured to drive said music generation engine constrained by the predefined composer input, wherein the musically asynchronous real-time control signal is an immediate data inlet for directly controlling and/or dynamically modifying the music currently being generated by the engine;
• receiving the musically asynchronous real-time control signal in the MRS unit, wherein the MRS unit is configured to combine said predefined composer input with the musically asynchronous real-time control signal generated by the RID into a music signal, wherein the MRS unit is configured to output the music signal to the CA;
• driving said music generation engine constrained by the predefined composer input;
• generating a fluid piece of music note-by-note in real-time based on the music signal received from the MRS unit and on the rule definitions defined by the predefined composer input in the CA by means of musical handlers;
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• converting the fluid piece of music from the CA into a corresponding music control signal in the PCU for real-time playback by the interactive system, by controlling at least one Audio Block operatively connected to said interactive system.