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The title of the post as it appears here on HN is misleading. Actually the original title does not mention classical music, and the original post as a whole men
by ciconia 11y ago
The title of the post as it appears here on HN is misleading. Actually the original title does not mention classical music, and the original post as a whole mentions the word classical exactly once, when referring to the Classical Piano Midi Page[0], from which he took the material he used to train the neural network. So in a way the entire discussion here is misguided.
The post is interesting I guess for its discussion of neural networks, but I fear attempting to train an AI system for 24 hours to produce anything which purports to imitate an artform that was developed by countless generations of human beings, is a bit pretentious.
As an aside, I find it a bit alarming that people are seemingly so eager to generalize the term "classical music", without taking into account that it refers to a field which is almost infinite in its diversity of forms and styles.
[0] http://www.piano-midi.de/ http://www.piano-midi.de/
- pierrec 11y agoI don't think the conversation is misguided. The meaning of a word varies with context, and this neural network was not trained on, say, Hindustani classical or twelve-tone music. The vagueness of "classical music" can be annoying sometimes, but in this case people approximately agree on a contextual definition. In the top comment, a precision is brought: "later than medieval and earlier than late-romantic in style", which encompasses almost all of the set used to train the neural network (and consequently, the style that the network is trying to reproduce). Sure, it's a broad range, but the theory that can be used to study it is surprisingly detailed and generalizable.