{"id":91,"date":"2018-01-12T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizon.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2018-05-29T23:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:43:53","slug":"earworm-melodies-with-strange-aspects-what-happens-when-ai-makes-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/horizon\/91\/earworm-melodies-with-strange-aspects-what-happens-when-ai-makes-music\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Earworm melodies with strange aspects\u2019 \u2013 what happens when AI makes music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-header field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>The first full-length mainstream music album co-written with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)\u00a0was released on 12 January and experts believe that the science behind it could lead to a whole new style of music composition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Popular music has always been fertile ground for technological innovation. From the electric guitar to the studio desk, laptops and the wah-wah pedal, music has the ability to absorb new inventions with ease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Now, the release of\u00a0<em>Hello World,<\/em>\u00a0the first entire studio album co-created by artists and AI could mark a watershed in music composition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Stemming from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flow-machines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FlowMachines<\/a>\u00a0project, funded by the EU&#8217;s European Research Council, the album is the fruits of the labour of 15 artists, music producer Benoit Carr\u00e9, aka Skygge, and creative software designed by computer scientist and AI expert Fran\u00e7ois Pachet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Already Belgian pop sensation Stromae and chart-topping Canadian chanteuse Kiesza have been making waves with the single\u00a0<em>Hello Shadow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QgD9y9aBhSc?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><em>The single\u00a0<\/em>Hello Shadow<em>, featuring Stromae and Kiesza, is taken from\u00a0<\/em><em>the AI-co-written album,\u00a0<\/em>Hello World<em>. Video credit \u2013 SKYGGE MUSIC<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The software works by using neural networks \u2013 artificial intelligence systems that learn from experience by forming connections over time, thereby mimicking the biological networks of people\u2019s brains. Pachet describes its basic job as \u2018to infer the style of a corpus (of music) and generate new things\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">A musician firstly provides \u2018inspiration\u2019 to the software by exposing it to a collection of songs. Once the system understands the style required it outputs a new composition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018The system &#8230; analyses the music in terms of beats, melody and harmony,\u2019 said Pachet, \u2018And then outputs an original piece of music based on that style.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Creative workflow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The design challenge with this software was to make it adapt to the creative workflow of musicians without becoming a nuisance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018The core (problem) was how to do that so that (it) takes into account user constraints. Why? Because if you compose music, actually you never do something from scratch from A to Z,\u2019 said Pachet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotesBlock quote_horizontal\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018It\u2019s not a new form of music. It\u2019s a new way to create music.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Benoit Carr\u00e9, FlowMachines<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"quotesBottom\">He outlines a typical scenario where the AI software generates something and only parts of it are useful but the musician wants to keep it in, drop the rest and generate new sounds using the previous partial output. It\u2019s a complex requirement, in other words.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018Basically, the main contribution of the project was to find ways to do that, to do that well and to do that fast,\u2019 said Pachet. \u2018It was really an algorithmic problem.\u2019 As creative workers driven by intuition, musicians need direct results to maintain their momentum. A clunky tool with ambivalent results would not last long in a creative workflow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Pachet is satisfied that his technical goal is completed and that the AI will generate music \u2018quickly and under user constraints\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">After years of development and refinement, the AI music tool now fits on a laptop, such as to be found in any recording studio, anywhere. In the hands of music producer Carr\u00e9, the application became the creative tool that built\u00a0<em>Hello World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic_article_image_bloc\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/francois-pachet_0.jpg\" alt=\"Computer scientist and AI expert Francois Pachet created a system that co-writes music. Image credit \u2013 Kevin Casey\/ Horizon\" width=\"1160\" height=\"959\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Computer scientist and AI expert Francois Pachet created a system that co-writes music. Image credit \u2013 Kevin Casey\/ Horizon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caption credit\"><strong>Collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">As a record producer, Carr\u00e9 collaborated closely with the artists in the studio to write and produce songs. So, as the resident musical expert, can Carr\u00e9 say if this is a new form of music?<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018It\u2019s not a new form of music,\u2019 he said, \u2018It\u2019s a new way to create music.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Carr\u00e9 said he believes the software could lead to a new era in composition. \u2018Every time there is a new tool there is a new kind of compositional style. For this project we can see that there is a new kind of melody that was created.\u2019 He describes this as \u2018earworm melodies with strange aspects\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">He also says that the process is a real collaboration between human and machine. The system creates original compositions that are then layered into songs in various forms, whether as a beat, a melody or an orchestration. During the process, artists such as Stromae are actively involved in making decisions about what and how to include the muscial fragments the AI provides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018You can recognise all the artists because they have made choices that are their identity, I think,\u2019 said Carr\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Pachet concurs. \u2018You know in English you say every Lennon needs a McCartney \u2013 so that\u2019s the kind of stuff we are aiming at. We are not aiming at autonomous creation. I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s interesting, I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s possible actually, because we have no clue how to give a computer a sense of agency, a sense that something is going somewhere, (that) it has some meaning, a soul, if you want.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The album\u2019s title\u00a0<em>Hello World\u00a0<\/em>reflects the expression commonly used the very first time someone runs a new computer program or starts a website as proof that is working. Carr\u00e9 believes that\u00a0<em>Hello World<\/em>\u00a0is just the first step and the software signals the start of a whole new way of composing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018Maybe not next year, but in five years there will be a new set of tools that helps creators to make music,\u2019 said Carr\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/article\/earworm-melodies-strange-aspects-what-happens-when-ai-makes-music_en.html\">Horizon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first full-length mainstream music album co-written with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)\u00a0was released on 12 January and experts believe that the science behind it could lead to a whole new style of music composition. Popular music has always been fertile ground for technological innovation. 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