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Making Kantor: Human-machine Collaboration to Build Artistic VR
Making Kantor: Human-machine Collaboration to Build Artistic VR
Kantor is a short artistic VR experience. It started as a simple hack and turned into a series of 9 abstract worlds inspired by the shapes…
Valerio Velardo
Oct 22, 2019
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Steal like an AI — How AI might be used to create music archetypes
Steal like an AI — How AI might be used to create music archetypes
Exploring artificial intelligence as the perfect musical accomplice.
Paul Dachs
Jul 11, 2019
Sonic Similarity — how to find the right song now
Sonic Similarity — how to find the right song now
Whichever your chosen medium, the digital era promises widespread opportunity to fuse video and sound into breathtaking storytelling. But…
Melodrive
Jul 3, 2019
Folk the algorithms: traditional music in AI music research
Folk the algorithms: traditional music in AI music research
Folk music provides an excellent sandbox for machine learning research, but play with care.
Bob Sturm
Jun 20, 2019
Enter the Mutant: Genetic algorithms, part III
Enter the Mutant: Genetic algorithms, part III
Welcome back, chromosomes! Over the last two posts, we’ve been exploring Genetic Algorithms (GAs). You might want to review those pieces…
Andy Elmsley
Jun 19, 2019
Infinity welcomes careful composers: Exploring Infinite Music Systems
Infinity welcomes careful composers: Exploring Infinite Music Systems
While infinite music sounds like an enticing idea, the skill of the composer or audio programmer remains an ever-lasting necessity. A…
Cárthach Ó Nuanáin
Jun 13, 2019
Understanding AI music discovery and recommendation systems
Understanding AI music discovery and recommendation systems
Find out how Spotify and other services use AI to recommend things to you. Webinar link inside.
Paul Dachs
Jun 6, 2019
Selection, Crossover, I choose you! Genetic algorithms, part II
Selection, Crossover, I choose you! Genetic algorithms, part II
Welcome back, phenotypes! Last time we introduced Genetic Algorithms (GAs), an AI method for searching complex spaces, inspired by natural…
Andy Elmsley
Jun 5, 2019
How Music Creators can Survive the AI Music Generation Revolution and Thrive
How Music Creators can Survive the AI Music Generation Revolution and Thrive
If you follow the music tech industry closely, you’ll surely have noted the appearance of numerous generative music systems on the market…
Valerio Velardo
May 31, 2019
Twitch plays Melodrive — Using comments to play AI-generated music
Twitch plays Melodrive — Using comments to play AI-generated music
How we made an infinite stream of piano music that changes based on your comments — during a hackathon.
Paul Dachs
May 30, 2019
Intelligence is in my genes: Genetic algorithms, part I
Intelligence is in my genes: Genetic algorithms, part I
Hello again, cross-validators. For the last few weeks we’ve been discussing Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and how to train them…
Andy Elmsley
May 24, 2019
AI for Everyone — A musician’s guide
AI for Everyone — A musician’s guide
Applying Andrew Ng’s course to the music business world.
Paul Dachs
May 23, 2019
AI for the music business
AI for the music business
When hearing about Artificial Intelligence, many music industry professionals might not be fully aware of the extent to which it’s going…
Melodrive
May 16, 2019
Hear what I’ve found — A survey on music discovery
Hear what I’ve found — A survey on music discovery
Discovering new music isn’t what it used to be. And hopefully it won’t be what it is now. That’s what we found when conducting an…
Paul Dachs
May 9, 2019
You’re fit and you know it: overfitting and cross-validation
You’re fit and you know it: overfitting and cross-validation
Welcome back machine-learners. Last time we finished off our brief tour of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) with a look into their…
Andy Elmsley
May 2, 2019
Super music supervision: Quickly discovering relevant music with the help of AI
Super music supervision: Quickly discovering relevant music with the help of AI
Music supervision, while coming in many forms, has always been a type of work that requires near superhuman levels of patience. Music…
Valerio Velardo
Apr 26, 2019
How to increase user immersion with (mostly) audio
How to increase user immersion with (mostly) audio
A truly authentic, engaging virtual reality (VR) experience hinges on ‘immersion’ and ‘immersion multipliers’. These are highly valued by…
Andy Elmsley
Apr 25, 2019
Jumping into hyperparameters
Jumping into hyperparameters
Welcome back, gradient descenders! Last time we introduced the backpropagation algorithm to train our neural networks. I strongly…
Andy Elmsley
Apr 18, 2019
What Makes a Great Melody? 7 Lessons Learned from UNDERTALE
What Makes a Great Melody? 7 Lessons Learned from UNDERTALE
When we listen to a melody, it’s only a few notes in that we know whether we like it or not. The underlying cognitive processing used to…
Valerio Velardo
Apr 11, 2019
This is the first article to talk about AI (music) fake news, isn’t it?
This is the first article to talk about AI (music) fake news, isn’t it?
Journalists and bloggers like to write attention-grabbing stories. They love to be the first to tell their audience something unique…
Valerio Velardo
Apr 5, 2019
A Beautiful Song: The Adaptive Music of NieR: Automata
A Beautiful Song: The Adaptive Music of NieR: Automata
Exploring how incredible adaptive music makes NieR: Automata a truly special game.
Jennifer Smith
Apr 4, 2019
Training to train: Artificial Neural Networks, part II
Training to train: Artificial Neural Networks, part II
Welcome back, networks-in-training! Last week we introduced the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) — our first Artificial Neural Network (ANN).
Andy Elmsley
Apr 3, 2019
The Reality of Red Dead Redemption 2’s AI (Part 2)
The Reality of Red Dead Redemption 2’s AI (Part 2)
In last week’s article, we took a trip into the fascinating world of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2), where non-player characters (NPCs) have…
Valerio Velardo
Mar 29, 2019
30% More Immersion in VR — An Adaptive Music Experiment
30% More Immersion in VR — An Adaptive Music Experiment
The following is an account of an experiment Melodrive conducted about a year ago. We wanted to understand more about how adaptive music…
Valerio Velardo
Mar 28, 2019
Thinking artificially: Artificial Neural Networks, part I
Thinking artificially: Artificial Neural Networks, part I
The latest tutorial in our AI coding series.
Andy Elmsley
Mar 27, 2019
The Reality of Red Dead Redemption 2’s AI (Part 1)
The Reality of Red Dead Redemption 2’s AI (Part 1)
How Red Dead Redemption 2 uses AI to create a believable world.
Valerio Velardo
Mar 22, 2019
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