> Working with raw audio seem like the wrong abstraction layer for music I do kinda agree with you, but I wish I could find the classical music audio clip I me

> Working with raw audio seem like the wrong abstraction layer for music I do kinda agree with you, but I wish I could find the classical music audio clip I mentioned. It was generating a fairly convincing clip of audio complete with an orchestral backing and a piano solo track. Maybe that would change your mind a little. Unlike text which is discrete characters, music is a continuum of pitch, tone and other characteristics. Maybe it won't be generating the music, but adjusting the tone instead. There's quite a lot of effort in mixing and mastering music, which sounds like good territory for ML. To return to your text analogy - it's more like generating convincing images of hand-written text. You might generate the discrete characters one by one, and then proceed to turn that into pixels with another algorithm.