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Popular forms of narrative - such as mainstream cinema and novels - typically rely on the complete commitment to the narrative arc as the backbone and the engine for the storytelling experience. Other narrative forms, however, such as video games, song lyrics, television commercials and the long history of generative narrative art show that narrative can follow other paths. (329)

The aim of sound art is to transform a concept, devised by the artist, into a set of decisions and processes that will ultimately result in an acoustic work. (325)

From a research standpoint, the question regarding metacreation is no longer 'can a computer exhibit creative behavior?': that question has been answered, in the positive, many times over. AARON's [...] paintings have exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London, and EMI's compositions [...] have created music that could not be discerned from human-composed music by the most educated experts [...]. (321)

Metacreation is a contemporary approach to generative art, using tools and techniques from artificial intelligence, artificial life, and machine learning [...] to develop software that is creative on its own. In other words, software is a metacreation if it exhibits behaviors that would be considered creative if performed by humans. (321)