pau6945@cec1.wustl.edu (Peter Allen Uchytil) (03/07/90)
Does anyone out there know if Teuvo Kohonen has published any papers on his dealings with concert music generated by nerual networks? I have a copy of IJCNN-90 conference program and it shows that he gave an hour presentation on this subject. Did anyone attend? Better yet, does anyone know where I can get a sample of this music? Thanks for anything you can tell me. Pete ------- Peter Uchytil pau6945@cec2.wustl.edu
markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) (03/18/90)
In article <76@nrl-cmf.UUCP> tedwards@cmsun.UUCP (Thomas Edwards) writes: > >The exact algorithm is not expected to be published exactly because there is >much commercial interest in his technique.... >...had the typical computer generated lack of overall theme, and there were >some times when I just couldn't help thinking "That was the wrong note for >this song." However, it did seem to create often wonderfully powerful >repetitons of strong note sequences. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds to me like the net encoded music using something analogous to "Wickelphones". If you look for combinations in limited contexts (such as all 3 note sequences), you can abstract out the explicit time ordering while still preserving much of the identity of the music. A musical piece would be identified by which "Wickelpitches" occurred in it, but all the global structural information would be lost. Hence the behavior you describe. It is interesting to note that simply by compiling a table of probabilities for, say, 5 character sequences in English text, you can automatically generate text that is remarkably English-like using those probabilities and a random number generator. If you have time (and storage space and generous amounts of text), you may want to try it.