- Generative Music as a Framework for Cinema
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- If film is dead, what is next for cinema? Generative medias flourished in the late 20th century and continue to do so into the 21st due to our complete submersion into a digital age. Generative music has settled in multiple environments, from commercial albums to public spaces, yet, by comparison, generative cinema remains absent from such popular or commercial spaces. In this light I explore how the frameworks of generative music can be applied to create a more widespread generative cinema. However, such cross-modal comparisons are rife with complication if we are in search for a truly medium-specific generative cinema. Similarly, the blanket terms ‘generative media’ and ‘visual arts’ provide ways to circumvent the entire public concept of generative cinema—removing it from cinema proper. As such I delve deeper into the very semantics of cinema, questioning where we do (and should) place its boundaries to ensure it survives in the 21st century.
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