Music and AI
Issue 6 of A Bit of CS4FN is about Music and AI.. Find here links to the mini-magazine, to online versions of the articles and to the slutions to puzzles and activities as well as links to more on the subject of music and AI.
For some of the activities you need an instrument.
- Here is one free online piano to use.
Solutions to puzzles and quizzes are given at the end of this page.
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Jamming with JAM_BOT
Jordan Rudess is a rock keyboard player whose concerts sell out around the world. He works with a team of computer scientists to make his synthesisers do amazing things. Together they created an AI musician called JAM_BOT to play with him on-stage….. (read on)
Separate your stems
Purple can be created by mixing together red and blue paint. You can probably tell which of two purples has more blue and which has more red. Does music work the same way?
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Musical algorithms
How can a machine generate music? It needs an algorithm to follow: instructions to tell it what to do, step by step. Here are two simple games to play that compose a random tune by algorithm?…(read on)
The day the music didn’t die
A seperewa is a traditional “harp-lute” musical instrument of the Akan people in Ghana, Africa. It has strings that are plucked a bit like a guitar. It is dying out because of the rise of western music. Researchers are now testing AIs that were trained on western music to see if they still work with such different seperewa music. They are also trying to understand exactly how this traditional music is different…(read on)
How machines “hear” music
Listen to a song and you might tap your feet. Computers can “listen” to music but they don’t have feet to tap! They don’t have ears or a brain either so they don’t “listen” in the way that you do. They use maths…(read on)
All the notes?
There are infinitely many musical notes, just like there are infinitely many colours. That matters if you are designing a new digital musical instrument. You have a lot more choice than on a piano!…(read on)
Composing ancient Korean music
600 years ago King Sejong the Great of Korea published ‘Hangul’, a new and improved writing system for his people. To celebrate he asked his court scholars to write an epic poem in Hangul, then asked his musicians to compose music to accompany it. The result was Yongbieocheonga, or ‘Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven’. Now it is being recreated by AI…(read on)
You’ll be Bach
The Bach Google Doodle is an AI musician which can write music in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach, a famous 18th century German composer…(read on)
Lots more on Music AI
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Solutions
The volume quiz
Here are the solutions to the Volume Quiz:
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