AI for artists : Part 2 – Towards Data Science

Music is a powerful tool that has made some of the most brilliant minds in the world turn into a state of wonder . Among them was Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Virginia Woolf and the list goes on. Nietzche in his book, Twilight of the Idols said that " Without music life would be a mistake" . In this article we will create music using simple LSTM network but before that let's get a brief idea about algorithmic composition which has occurred in the history of music composition. There are numerous treatises on music theory dating from Greek antiquity but they were not "algorithmic composition" in any pure sense.