MusicVAE: Creating a palette for musical scores with machine learning.

When a painter creates a work of art, she first blends and explores color options on an artist's palette before applying them to the canvas. This process is a creative act in its own right and has a profound effect on the final work. Musicians and composers have mostly lacked a similar device for exploring and mixing musical ideas, but we are hoping to change that. Below we introduce MusicVAE, a machine learning model that lets us create palettes for blending and exploring musical scores. As an example, listen to this gradual blending of 2 different melodies, A and B. We'll explain how this morph was achieved throughout the post.