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Neural Computing and Applications
Published in: Neural Computing and Applications 4/2020

15-10-2018 | Deep learning for music and audio

Towards a Deep Improviser: a prototype deep learning post-tonal free music generator

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Abstract

Two modest-sized symbolic corpora of post-tonal and post-metrical keyboard music have been constructed: one algorithmic and the other improvised. Deep learning models of each have been trained. The purpose was to obtain models with sufficient generalisation capacity that in response to separate fresh input seed material, they can generate outputs that are statistically distinctive, neither random nor recreative of the learned corpora or the seed material. This objective has been achieved, as judged by k-sample Anderson–Darling and Cramer tests. Music has been generated using the approach, and preliminary informal judgements place it roughly on a par with an example of composed music in a related form. Future work will aim to enhance the model such that it deserves to be fully evaluated in relation to expression, meaning and utility in real-time performance.
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Metadata
Title
Towards a Deep Improviser: a prototype deep learning post-tonal free music generator
Publication date
15-10-2018
Published in
Neural Computing and Applications / Issue 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0941-0643
Electronic ISSN: 1433-3058
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3765-x

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