Composing, playing, preserving
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are changing the way everything is done and that includes music. Machines can now compose music, help invent new instruments, help musicians be creative and even perform with them. AI tools are also helping to save traditional music from extinction and recreate music thought lost.
Music has always been changed by new technology, and it is now the turn of tools such as Machine Learning programs to revolutionise the way we create, play and listen to music.
Issue 6 of A Bit of CS4FN is also about Music and AI. [COMING SOON]
Machines Inventing Musical Instruments
Machine Learning is the technology driving driverless cars, recognising faces in your photo collection and more, but how could it help machines invent new instruments? Rebecca Fiebrink is finding out….. (read on)
Machines Inventing Musical Instruments
Could a program Beatbox? …using physics rather than machine learning. An early way to get a program to beatbox was just to use a translation program, but there are far more sophisticated possibilities that might allow a program to create new beatbox sounds…. (read on)
Ada and the music machine
Charles Babbage found barrel organs so incredibly irritating that he waged a campaign to clear them from the streets. His hatred, however, may have led to Ada Lovelace’s greatest idea.… (read on)
Listening to the machines
In older films computers are sometimes shown doing a calculation while making lots of bleeps and bloops – sounds that indicate ‘something technical is happening’. In reality computers are generally very quiet. But computer scientists have been wondering if some sound added in might help people make sense of what’s going on especially when Artificial Intelligence is doing stuff you want to understand… (read on)
Music Making Mates for Mortimer
Robots are cool. Fact. But can they keep you interested for more than a short time? Over months? Years even? Louis McCallum tells us about his research using Mortimer a drumming robot… (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)
Portals
More on music, digital or not
This page has focussed on the crossover between artificial intelligence tools and music but there is a lot more research and innovation that involves machines, digital or not…(read on)
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