Music and AI - Part 4

Just some closing thoughts on this topic, as well as some random notes and questions I’ve left for myself in the future.

Music and AI - Part 3

In the previous post, we looked at how different architectures have been applied to music generation. But this is a bit like putting your cart before the horse, since we haven’t discussed in detail the kind of attributes we’re looking for. This post goes over some high level considerations - things that could serve as requirements for a project. Depending on your specific needs and desires, you may end up selecting a different architecture.

Music and AI - Part 2

This post goes over a few different approaches to music generation with deep learning.

Music and AI - Part 1

DallE-2 and ChatGPT have come and shown us how powerful AI can be when it comes to abstract and creative tasks. If AI can create images and sentences, why not music?

Harmony

This post is a collection of ideas all about musical harmony, especially in Jazz. Though they come in all sorts of flavors and styles, many chord progressions are built on the idea of tension and release. We play dissonant chords to “push” the melody towards a nice resolution, which usually is the tonic chord (also known as the home chord).

Twelve Tone Equal Temperatment

If you’ve taken any kind of music lesson before, chances are you were introduced to the western classical system of notation, otherwise known as twelve-tone equal temperament. In this system, each octave is subdivided into 12 notes, labeled A through G.

So much of music theory is based on this system that it’s easy to forget what it is - a constructed language that approximates something physical.