Marco Pontello
4 HN mentions · mentioned in 4 months, 2010–2016
2:05 · 377K views · Feb 25, 2010
A short clip of a track from Emily Howell, a computer program by David Cope that composes classical-style music, performed by human players. It is a sample of algorithmic composition.
Used as an example of computer-generated music in threads on AI creativity and music.
4 comments from Hacker News
The tracks from the latest album are a LOT better. They are obviously played by a human. Here's an example (search YouTube for 'Emily Howell music') this video I'm really surprised the author of the article didn't try to get a snippet to play (edit: they do on the page 2 of the article). The music still doesn't quite do it for me but if you consider the potential of future versions it is pretty amazing.
Who knows what you mean by purely autonomously since even people can't help but learn from their experiences. Nevertheless, here's a novel composition made by an NLP algorithm trained on classical music: this video
There's a few such projects in existence. Perhaps not RNN-Mozart inspired, but I'm sure that exists too. Emily Howell this video Here's a Bach-inspired computer-generated song: [LINK]
Emily Howell is the name of the program. Some examples: Track 1: this video Fugue: [LINK] Here's the first CD produced: [LINK]