Artificial Musician Builds New Melodies without Music Theory - insideBIGDATA

The "deep artificial composer", or "DAC" for short, generates brand-new melodies that imitate traditional folk music of Irish or Klezmer origin. It does so without plagiarizing already existing ones, since melodies it writes are as original as those produced by a human composer. The results were presented in April at this year's edition of the Evostar conference. The DAC actually produces musical scores of melodies, symbolic music written using notation, and does not generate audio files. The deep artificial composer can produce complete melodies, with a beginning and an end, that are completely novel and that share features that we relate to style," says Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) scientists Florian Colombo who developed the artificial intelligence under the guidance of Wulfram Gerstner, director of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory. "To my knowledge, this is the first time that an artificial neural network model has produced entire and convincing melodies.