Generating Music (with an algorithm)
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Generating Music (with an algorithm)
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#2it sounds like i expected it would :)
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#3it sounds like i expected it would :)
bad, or artificial? If "artificial" - that's the performance side, and it depends on the soundbank. If a real performer plays the same score, it would sound better. The point is to have nice compositions first :)
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#4I've been wondering how long it would be until web sites like this started showing up, where you can listen to automatically generated music on demand.
Hopefully they keep improving until they make the best human composers look mediocre, despite being millions of times faster. Unbounded amounts of new high quality low cost music? Yes please.
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#5I've been wondering how long it would be until web sites like this started showing up, where you can listen to automatically generated music on demand. Hopefully they keep improving until they make the best human composers look mediocre, despite being millions of times faster. Unbounded amounts of new high quality low cost music? Yes please.
My point is similar, but not exactly the same. The best human composers will still be the best. However, the other 90% may be replaced by computers. Or, computers may generate some "skeletons", which real composers can use and enrich.
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#6Have you ever thought of using some more complicated algorithm for randomness, e.g., genetic algorithm?
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=genetic+algorithm+music+...
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#7Have you ever thought of using some more complicated algorithm for randomness, e.g., genetic algorithm? http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=genetic+algorithm+music+...
I have indeed looked at some genetic algorithms and a lot of papers on the topic (in fact, my former university has a course about that, so I read the coursebook). Most of what I have read is either included, attempted, or in TODO. And obviously, I need to read some more.
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#8Have you ever thought of using some more complicated algorithm for randomness, e.g., genetic algorithm? http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=genetic+algorithm+music+...
I have indeed looked at some genetic algorithms and a lot of papers on the topic (in fact, my former university has a course about that, so I read the coursebook). Most of what I have read is either included, attempted, or in TODO. And obviously, I need to read some more.
That interactive thing looks useful. It might be possible to build a music composer (website) using collective intelligence, i.e., producing music by taking people's response into consideration?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have indeed looked at some genetic algorithms and a lot of papers on the topic (in fact, my former university has a course about that, so I read the coursebook). Most of what I have read is either included, attempted, or in TODO. And obviously, I need to read some more.
That interactive thing looks useful. It might be possible to build a music composer (website) using collective intelligence, i.e., producing music by taking people's response into consideration?
The idea of "liking" and "disliking" is to:
1. Get a collection of 'best' tracks that sort-of advertises the successful parts of the algorithm
2. To let me analyze which intermediate decisions in the generation process are good and which not, so that I can make the good ones happen more often.
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#10In 1995 Douglas Hofstadter wrote a short essay that describes his amazement with a piece of music composed by a program. Interesting reading: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse403/03su/m...