Teaching My Computer to Write Its Own Music (2015)(nautil.us)
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Teaching My Computer to Write Its Own Music (2015)
http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/how-i-taught-my-computer-to-write-its-own-music
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Because it's not a ML experiment, but a Max/Msp sketch which semi-randomly fires off carefully (by a human) prepared samples.
Well it's not AI or ML really - it's hand-picked algorithmic composition with additional contributions from human composers.
The holy grail AI composer would be able to generate unique, creative, well-crafted material on demand. Almost every system that has existed thus far generates mostly nonsense, but the results are tweaked or hand-selected by humans. Those that don't hand-select are the ones that sound algorithmic and computer-generated to anyone with remote music ability. That's why the current state-of-the-art in on-demand music generation sounds like elevator music - and to a trained musician you can still tell there's something "off" about it (Jukedeck, etc.).
The holy grail AI composer would be able to generate unique, creative, well-crafted material on demand. Almost every system that has existed thus far generates mostly nonsense, but the results are tweaked or hand-selected by humans. Those that don't hand-select are the ones that sound algorithmic and computer-generated to anyone with remote music ability. That's why the current state-of-the-art in on-demand music generation sounds like elevator music - and to a trained musician you can still tell there's something "off" about it (Jukedeck, etc.).
Jukedeck[1] can produce some interesting results that are a little more harmonically interesting than a lot of simpler systems.
1: https://www.jukedeck.com/
1: https://www.jukedeck.com/
This one is different, to my ears.