Hearing the start of Für Elise, and then it being taken in an incredibly different direction, is surprisingly disconcerting.
Can we hear it?
It's on the linked page if you scroll down just a bit.
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#83This is almost exactly what Jordan Rudess is doing now with some folks from MIT or Stanford right now. Google his interview with Rick Beato.
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#84Really cool! It reminds me of a demo I saw live at NeurIPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3V922h3CU (paper at https://openreview.net/pdf?id=3yeBer3J5z).
If you like such creative AI work, I would recommend looking at the other "NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2025" submissions as well.
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#85You could also distill the fabulous Anticipatory Music Transformer from Stanford. https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/06/16/anticipatory-music-tran...
Also consider checking their decisions about representation, etc
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#86Interesting. I do feel letting a machine generating notes is taking the joy out of improvisation, is it not? I think one of the great, early, joys of learning a piano is gaining the following intuitions: The seemingly harder path of learning sheet is actually faster. Your mind _should_ learn to think in two dimensions Spatial — where fingers go — and Time — pitch and tempo – ** when learning. The _internalization_ of…
as with every discipline that AI and therefore computers can reason through suddenly:
you could always do the discipline you liked before for self fulfillment purposes, and you can still do it for self fulfillment purposes now
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#87Talking about AI music with some live human MIDI inputs, Magenta Realtime 2 was released a few weeks ago and is pretty fun. https://magenta.withgoogle.com/magenta-realtime-2
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#88Hearing the start of Für Elise, and then it being taken in an incredibly different direction, is surprisingly disconcerting.
There's an incredibly funny bit (if you're into absurdist comedy) by Hans Teeuwen about the disconcerting direction a well known song can take:
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#89Ah, MIDI files. The only type of music you could realistically download from the internet back in the day, and you had to wake up at ungodly hours so that your dialup modem would not rack up a massive phone bill.
MIDI is still widely used for professional music production. It sounded goofy back in the day because synthesizer it was played on was not very good.
MIDI is a protocol, and it's not ever going away or being replaced.
Some protocols (like I2C or MIDI) are gonna be with humanity forever, probably.
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#90Interesting. I do feel letting a machine generating notes is taking the joy out of improvisation, is it not? I think one of the great, early, joys of learning a piano is gaining the following intuitions: The seemingly harder path of learning sheet is actually faster. Your mind _should_ learn to think in two dimensions Spatial — where fingers go — and Time — pitch and tempo – ** when learning. The _internalization_ of…
Reminds me of a story a coworker told me about his band rehearsal when the new drummer counted one-two-three-four-five-six-se-ven-eight.