Emily Howell - Track 1
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as an example of computer-generated music in threads on AI creativity and music.
What it is
A short clip of a track from Emily Howell, a computer program by David Cope that composes classical-style music, performed by human players. It is a sample of algorithmic composition.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2010 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Cites dejb · 2010-05 · on “Computer program writing great, original works of classical music”
The tracks from the latest album are a LOT better. They are obviously played by a human. Here's an example (search YouTube for 'Emily Howell music') [this video] I'm really surprised the author of the article didn't try to get a snippet to play (edit: they do on the page 2 of the article). The music still doesn't quite do it for me but if you consider the potential of future versions it is pretty amazing.
Cites Nadya · 2015-05 · on “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”
There's a few such projects in existence. Perhaps not RNN-Mozart inspired, but I'm sure that exists too. Emily Howell [this video] Here's a Bach-inspired computer-generated song: [LINK]
Cites kbaker · 2016-07 · on “What makes music sound “good?””
Emily Howell is the name of the program. Some examples: Track 1: [this video] Fugue: [LINK] Here's the first CD produced: [LINK]
Cites alexbeloi · 2016-09 · on “I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA”
Who knows what you mean by purely autonomously since even people can't help but learn from their experiences. Nevertheless, here's a novel composition made by an NLP algorithm trained on classical music: [this video]