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I think the dissatisfaction you're talking about arises necessarily from projects that generate notes with a network trained on a bunch of MIDI data. Our ears e
by fenomas 8y ago
I think the dissatisfaction you're talking about arises necessarily from projects that generate notes with a network trained on a bunch of MIDI data. Our ears expect music to have structure (chord progressions, etc) but models like this only really mimic small-scale features of the source. So any given phrase of 3-5 notes can sound musical, but over the course of a measure or two the illusion breaks and it sounds largely indistinguishable from a random walk of notes.
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- organsnyder 8y agoSo very similar to a Markov text generator, then. Makes sense, really, since music can convey much more than is evident merely by looking at the sequence of notes.
- fenomas 8y agoThat's the analogy I usually make, yeah - it's like generating a story with a neural network trained on a bunch of stories. You'll get grammatical phrases, and sometimes sentences, but naturally none of it will make any sense.