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Emily Howell - Track 1

377K views · Feb 25, 2010 · 2:05 · 0 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2010–2016

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Used as an example of computer-generated music in threads on AI creativity and music.

What Hacker News said 4

Cites itdejbMay 2010

“The tracks from the latest album are a LOT better.”

Example track by Emily Howell, played by a human.

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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') this 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.

in “Computer program writing great, original works of classical music” · view on HN
Cites itNadyaMay 2015

“There's a few such projects in existence.”

Example of computer-generated music.

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

in “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks” · view on HN
Cites itkbakerJul 2016

“Emily Howell is the name of the program.”

Example output of the Emily Howell program.

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Emily Howell is the name of the program. Some examples: Track 1: this video Fugue: link Here's the first CD produced: link

in “What makes music sound “good?”” · view on HN
Cites italexbeloiSep 2016

“here's a novel composition made by an NLP algorithm trained on classical music”

Example composition by an algorithm trained on classical music.

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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: this video

in “I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA” · view on HN