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This is both very cool and goes along the lines of the way I imagined deep learning would advance the state of the art in songwriting. YACHT's got a special pla

This is both very cool and goes along the lines of the way I imagined deep learning would advance the state of the art in songwriting. YACHT's got a special place in my heart for "Psychic City" which sounds like a lost child of Talking Heads, not to mention all the other great music they've made. Secondly, it's interesting how they used the tech to stretch their existing material: they basically notated their existing corpus of work (82 songs) into MIDI, chopped it by part into loops, fed that into the MusicVae deep learning model, got out thousands of loops, and reintegrated the output material into a full album. This is probably the way things can and should go. Exciting times! I want to have a go with this tech with my own music.

amelius 7y ago
How about a system where music is generated by a computer and a person listens to it while a functional MRI scanner provides feedback to the algorithm?
- yowlingcat 7y ago
  I remember thinking about such a system a long time ago. In a theoretical sense, that seems really cool, but I'm not sure if the hardware is quite there yet. From what I can recall, practical brain-computer interfaces are still in their infancy, and not reliable enough to use even for simple binary interfaces. Otherwise, that would basically make a closed circuit for the palette generation part of this -- just let the deep learning net come up with material and approve/deny it in realtime until you've got the material you need.
  - moomin 7y ago
    Also, from an artistic standpoint, initial response isn’t everything.
    - yowlingcat 7y ago
      That's true, but for me, it certainly is an important data point or signal. Part of how I've gotten a lot faster and productive is having the right judgment about when to tweak and when throw something or some part of a composition, arrangement or sound design away and just redo it from scratch when I don't think it's going in the right direction.
- Fjolsvith 7y ago
  An echo chamber?

amelius 7y ago

How about a system where music is generated by a computer and a person listens to it while a functional MRI scanner provides feedback to the algorithm?

yowlingcat 7y ago
I remember thinking about such a system a long time ago. In a theoretical sense, that seems really cool, but I'm not sure if the hardware is quite there yet. From what I can recall, practical brain-computer interfaces are still in their infancy, and not reliable enough to use even for simple binary interfaces. Otherwise, that would basically make a closed circuit for the palette generation part of this -- just let the deep learning net come up with material and approve/deny it in realtime until you've got the material you need.
- moomin 7y ago
  Also, from an artistic standpoint, initial response isn’t everything.
  - yowlingcat 7y ago
    That's true, but for me, it certainly is an important data point or signal. Part of how I've gotten a lot faster and productive is having the right judgment about when to tweak and when throw something or some part of a composition, arrangement or sound design away and just redo it from scratch when I don't think it's going in the right direction.
Fjolsvith 7y ago
An echo chamber?