Generating New Carnatic Music Patterns Using LSTM Neural Networks

Carnatic music is one of 2 Indian classical music forms (the other being Hindustani music). Unlike in Western classical music where compositions are set to a particular key (e.g. Beethoven's Symphony 5 in C minor) and features multiple modes; Carnatic music compositions are mostly set to a single distinct mode, known as a Raga. The Raga Sankarabharanam for example corresponds to the Ionian mode (commonly known as the major scale). Because of this focus on a certain mode, Carnatic music features complex recurrent patterns, that can often be thought of as building on basic patterns, almost like the equivalent of riffs.