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About Me

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Central Florida. My interests include computational creativity, computer-generated music, music cognition, neuroevolution, NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), HyperNEAT, and Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPNs). I am also a member of the the EPlex research group.

CV

You can download a copy of my current CV here.
last edited: 01/12/12.

Publications

Interactively Evolving Harmonies through Functional Scaffolding
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011). New York, NY: ACM, 2011. 8 pages.
Winner of the Best Paper Award in the Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts track

Generating Musical Accompaniment through Functional Scaffolding
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
In: Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-2011, Padova, Italy).

Exploiting Functional Relationships in Musical Composition
Amy K. Hoover and Kenneth O. Stanley
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
Connection Science Special Issue on Music, Brain, & Cognition. Abington, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2009. Manuscript 33 pages

Scaffolding for Interactively Evolving Novel Drum Tracks for Existing Songs
Amy K. Hoover, Michael P. Rosario, and Kenneth O. Stanley
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
In: Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2008). New York, NY: Springer, 2008. 10 pages.
Winner of the Best Paper Award at EvoMUSART 2008

Music

An overview of the functional scaffolding for musical composition (FSMC) theory and music samples generated through application of the theory are available here.

Contact

Contact me at ahoover@eecs.ucf.edu.