I've heard a lot of ML experiments in making music and I haven't not enjoyed any of them, until this one. Most sound repetitive, bland, unemotional, cold, unoriginal, tedious.
Well it's not AI or ML really - it's hand-picked algorithmic composition with additional contributions from human composers.
The holy grail AI composer would be able to generate unique, creative, well-crafted material on demand. Almost every system that has existed thus far generates mostly nonsense, but the results are tweaked or hand-selected by humans. Those that don't hand-select are the ones that sound algorithmic and computer-generated to anyone with remote music ability. That's why the current state-of-the-art in on-demand music generation sounds like elevator music - and to a trained musician you can still tell there's something "off" about it (Jukedeck, etc.).
The truth is that the end result is pleasant, but the process they follow really has little or no Machine Learning.
It seems as if it is based only on random decisions.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 15.7 ms ] threadThis one is different, to my ears.
1: https://www.jukedeck.com/
The holy grail AI composer would be able to generate unique, creative, well-crafted material on demand. Almost every system that has existed thus far generates mostly nonsense, but the results are tweaked or hand-selected by humans. Those that don't hand-select are the ones that sound algorithmic and computer-generated to anyone with remote music ability. That's why the current state-of-the-art in on-demand music generation sounds like elevator music - and to a trained musician you can still tell there's something "off" about it (Jukedeck, etc.).