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DeepMind's AI learns the piano from the masters of the past

Published on Jul 29, 2018

The paper "The challenge of realistic music generation: modelling raw audio at scale" is available here

 

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Article "How AI-generated music is changing the way hits are made"
The Future of Music, episode 2

by Dani Deahl
August 31, 2018

 

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Making music and sound art with smart speakers - Singing With Machines

Published on Nov 25, 2018

‘Singing with Machines’ is a spin-off of our Talking With Machines work, which aims to investigate new experiences using ‘smart speaker’ devices such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home,

These experiments were concerned specifically with how these devices can be used for new ways of creating, enjoying, and disseminating music and sound art. We have been working collaboratively with musicians and sound artists to explore this which enables us to explore the technologies and platforms on which these devices operate, giving us insights into how they work, which can be more generally useful.

 

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Abbey Road RED is hacking the future of the music industry

Published on Jan 10, 2019

Nearly 100 participants from around Europe and the US spent 36 hours in Abbey Road’s legendary Studio One, working on ways to transform the music industry as part of the inaugural Abbey Road RED Hackathon. Microsoft AI specialists helped teams set up, access, and understand APIs, including Facial Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, Speech to Text, and more.

 

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Can a computer write a hit musical?

Published on Jan 14, 2019

In a world becoming ever more technologically advanced, and reliant upon computers, a team of scientists and musical theatre writers team up to devise a recipe for success in musical theatre and then task computers to use that knowledge and generate a hit. Will they succeed?

 

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Article "Huawei’s A.I. has finished Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, and we’ve heard it"
Schubert left Symphony No. 8 unfinished. A smartphone’s A.I. just completed it

by Andy Boxall
February 6, 2019

 

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（Alter 3） Android Opera ”Scary Beauty”

Published on Feb 27, 2019

Alter, humanoid robot, Japan

 

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Article "Elite Chinese Music School Now Offers PhDs in Music + AI"
Now, China's elite Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) has announced it is recruiting PhDs for a new Music AI and Information Technology program. CCOM says prospective students should have a background in Computer Science, AI, or Information Technology; along with musical abilities (instrument playing or singing).

April 6, 2019

 

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Article "Expert: AI-Generated Music Is A “Total Legal Clusterf*ck”"
What happens when an AI is trained to mimic just one artist's style?

by Kristin Houser
April 19, 2019

 

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A Soft Skeleton Robotic Hand plays the Piano | R3 Roboy's Research Reviews #7

Published on May 3, 2019

In this video, we discuss the paper “An Anthropomorphic Soft Skeleton Hand Exploiting Conditional Models for Piano Playing” by J. A. E. Hughes, P. Maolino, and F. Iida., 2018

How can we improve current control techniques and reduce computing power? And how can biology inspire us on this to develop better robots? We’ll investigate the opportunity of using passivity to navigate complex systems in accomplishing complicated tasks, such as a skeletal hand that is playing several songs on a piano.

 

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Robot keyboard musicians play Axel F Beverly Hills Cop Theme at SXSW 2019

Published on May 2, 2019

Software is revamping robotics hardware, lowering the barrier to entry through cloud, web and mobile technologies. Custom-built for SXSW, our robot rock band leverages cutting-edge software technologies, such as Maya and KUKA.ready2_animate, to harmoniously fuse music with robotics by converting MIDI files into motion tables, and then into robot program.

At SXSW, we showed how manufacturers can use software, VR and KUKA Connect to reflect processing data about what's happening in their facility. KUKA Connect is a cloud-based analytics and intelligence software platform that converts robot data into actionable insights.

 

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Article "I listened to a Massive Attack record remixed by a neural network"
Think you know Mezzanine? Think again.

by Nick Summers
May 17, 2019

 

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Article "AI as good as Mahler? Austrian orchestra performs symphony with twist"

by Julia Zappei
September 7, 2019

 

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"Changes" with split vocal and music tracks using the Spleeter library

Nov 3, 2019

This is incredible: a neural network that removes vocals from music and vice versa. Listen to this example i made from David Bowie's "Changes". A bit robotic, but even the echo is present in the vocal track! Made using the Spleeter library: https://github.com/deezer/spleeter

"Releasing Spleeter: Deezer Research source separation engine"

by Manuel Moussallam
November 4, 2019

"This open-source AI tool quickly isolates the vocals in any song"
Perfect for making karaoke backing tracks and mashups

by James Vincent
November 5, 2019

 

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Will AI be future of music ? | The Pretentious Geek

Nov 25, 2019

In this episode of The Pretentious Geek, we argue on the applications of machine learning in music industry. We discuss companies like AIVA, Musenet and Magenta which are building machines which can compose music and are bringing the tech to consumer products.

 

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Article "Computer is set to complete Beethoven's unfinished symphony"

by Justin Huggler
December 13, 2019

 

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Article "I had a lovely time in an AI-generated Björk hotel lobby soundscape"
Microsoft's musical partnership with Björk generates choral music based on weather patterns and birds. It's very calming, and I want it at home.

by Scott Stein
January 17, 2020

 

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Article "Meet the Tech World’s 10 Newest Bets on the Future of Music"
Techstars Music’s 2020 startup class focuses on recording innovation, AI-driven fraud detection, real-time concert analytics and more

by Amy X. Wang
February 5, 2020

 

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Article "This Fake Travis Scott Song Created By Artificial Intelligence Sounds Almost Like The Real Thing"

by Eddie Fu
February 12, 2020

 

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Article "Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Musicians?"
The machines are coming, but they seem to be coming to help us create better music

by Rebekah Tweed
February 17, 2020