AI Now Making Their Own Music...Kind Of

by ParentCo. September 26, 2016

Researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in Paris have shared a pair of tracks created with the assistance of software called Flow Machines. Researchers can tailor the process to produce tunes that sound like the work of a particular artist—for example, "Daddy's Car," which is intended to emulate the style of the Beatles...The singularity isn't upon us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHZ_b05W7o A second song, "Mr. Shadow," is fashioned in the style of Great American Songbook composers like Irving Berlin and Duke Ellington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGYEXJqun8 Neither of these songs were entirely composed by artificial intelligence, nor did a computer write the words. If you’d like to experiment with making some AI music yourself, a startup called Jukedeck will generate a song in the genre and mood of your choosing...
Source: “The World’s First Songs Composed By Artificial Intelligence” Are Neither First Nor Entirely Artificial | SPIN



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