Musician uses computer algorithm to compose every melody that's possible in key of C

A lawyer and hobbyist musician collaborated with a computer programmer to generate every possible 12-note melody in the key of C. The final compilation includes 68.7 billion melodic combinations, which the pair uploaded to the Internet Archive through a Create Commons Zero license, meaning they reserve no rights of ownership to any of them. A lawyer and hobbyist musician partnered with a programmer to create a computer algorithm to generate every 12-note melody possible in the key of C, leading to more than 68.7 billion combinations The project was originally started in 2019 when Damien Riehl, a lawyer and hobbyist musician, and programmer Noah Rubin were having drinks after a cybersecurity event. During the day's presentations Riehl had gotten the idea that it might be possible to'brute force' different combinations of musical notes in the same way that computer hackers brute force different letter and number combinations to crack passwords. At the time, a jury had just ruled against Katie Perry in a lawsuit brough by Flame, a rapper who claimed her chart topper'Dark Horse' had copied a musical fragment from his 2009 song'Joyful Noise.' The team was inspired by computer hackers how use a'brute force' combination technique to crack other people's passwords, and thought a similar approach might be useful for arranging notes into melodic structures Riehl and Rubin originally hoped to have an algorithm come up with every melodic combination of notes possible in western music, using the 88 notes of a standard piano as their starting point.