Google's Art Project Magenta Creates Its First Machine-Generated Song: Listen

With its new music-and-art project, called Magenta, Google is putting the "art" in artificial intelligence. The minds inside the Google Brain team have released a 90-second piano melody that was generated through machine learning. The project, first announced at Moogfest, is built on top of Google's TensorFlow, the web giant's open-source AI engine. Magenta's algorithm was primed with only four notes to start with, and it took off from there to plunk out a verse and bridge of sorts. The drum parts were added later for texture.