Composing Bach Chorales Using Deep Learning • Feynman Liang • GOTO 2017

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2017. #GOTOcon #GOTOams

Feynman Liang - Engineering Manager at Gigster @feynmanl

ABSTRACT
Can musical creativity, something believed to be deeply human, be codified into an algorithm?
While most music theorists are hesitant to claim a "correct" algorithm for composing music like Bach, recent advances in machine learning and computational musicology may help us reach [...]

TIMECODES
0:00 Introduction
2:12 Executive summary
3:08 Goals of the work
4:41 Overview
5:46 If you're a hands-on type
12:11 Handling polyphony
13:24 Serialize in SATB order
20:51 Sequential prediction training criteria
21:40 Model formulation
26:58 The final model
29:58 Automatic composition
31:02 Harmonization
35:07 Model learns music theory!
41:48 Conclusion

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[audioman]

awesome talk, and awesome experiment! great effort in empirically evaluating the model as well