Emily Howell - Track 1

Marco Pontello0 HN recommenders · 2010–2016
377K views · music · dated · Uploaded 2010-02-25

A short clip of a track from Emily Howell, a computer program by David Cope that composes classical-style music, performed by human players. It is a sample of algorithmic composition.

Used as an example of computer-generated music in threads on AI creativity and music.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@dejb2010 · in “Computer program writing great, original works of classical music”

The tracks from the latest album are a LOT better. They are obviously played by a human. Here's an example (search YouTube for 'Emily Howell music') [VIDEO] I'm really surprised the author of the article didn't try to get a snippet to play (edit: they do on the page 2 of the article). The music still doesn't quite do it for me but if you consider the potential of future versions it is pretty amazing.

@Nadya2015 · in “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”

There's a few such projects in existence. Perhaps not RNN-Mozart inspired, but I'm sure that exists too. Emily Howell [VIDEO] Here's a Bach-inspired computer-generated song: [LINK]

@kbaker2016 · in “What makes music sound “good?””

Emily Howell is the name of the program. Some examples: Track 1: [VIDEO] Fugue: [LINK] Here's the first CD produced: [LINK]

@alexbeloi2016 · in “I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA”

Who knows what you mean by purely autonomously since even people can't help but learn from their experiences. Nevertheless, here's a novel composition made by an NLP algorithm trained on classical music: [VIDEO]