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Generative AI has been transforming the way we interact with technology and consume content. In the next decade, AI technology will reshape how we create audio content in various media, including music, theater, films, games, podcasts, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Hao-Wen Dong

This study explores the application of evolutionary generative algorithms in music production to preserve and enhance human creativity. By integrating human feedback into Differential Evolution algorithms, we produced six songs that were…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Justin Kilb , Caroline Ellis

In this work, we introduce the demonstration of symbolic music generation, focusing on providing short musical motifs that serve as the central theme of the narrative. For the generation, we adopt an autoregressive model which takes musical…

Large models for text-to-music generation have achieved significant progress, facilitating the creation of high-quality and varied musical compositions from provided text prompts. However, input text prompts may not precisely capture user…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Boyu Chen , Peike Li , Yao Yao , Alex Wang

Diffusion models have shown promising results for a wide range of generative tasks with continuous data, such as image and audio synthesis. However, little progress has been made on using diffusion models to generate discrete symbolic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jincheng Zhang , György Fazekas , Charalampos Saitis

Generating music is an interesting and challenging problem in the field of machine learning. Mimicking human creativity has been popular in recent years, especially in the field of computer vision and image processing. With the advent of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Ashish Ranjan , Varun Nagesh Jolly Behera , Motahar Reza

This paper introduces DeepBach, a graphical model aimed at modeling polyphonic music and specifically hymn-like pieces. We claim that, after being trained on the chorale harmonizations by Johann Sebastian Bach, our model is capable of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Gaëtan Hadjeres , François Pachet , Frank Nielsen

In this paper we present a new approach for the generation of multi-instrument symbolic music driven by musical emotion. The principal novelty of our approach centres on conditioning a state-of-the-art transformer based on continuous-valued…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Serkan Sulun , Matthew E. P. Davies , Paula Viana

Over the past several years, deep learning for sequence modeling has grown in popularity. To achieve this goal, LSTM network structures have proven to be very useful for making predictions for the next output in a series. For instance, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Michael Conner , Lucas Gral , Kevin Adams , David Hunger , Reagan Strelow , Alexander Neuwirth

The traditional songwriting process is rather complex and this is evident in the time it takes to produce lyrics that fit the genre and form comprehensive verses. Our project aims to simplify this process with deep learning techniques, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tracy Cai , Wilson Liang , Donte Townes

Analogy-making is a key method for computer algorithms to generate both natural and creative music pieces. In general, an analogy is made by partially transferring the music abstractions, i.e., high-level representations and their…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Ruihan Yang , Dingsu Wang , Ziyu Wang , Tianyao Chen , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia

We introduce anticipation: a method for constructing a controllable generative model of a temporal point process (the event process) conditioned asynchronously on realizations of a second, correlated process (the control process). We…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-29 John Thickstun , David Hall , Chris Donahue , Percy Liang

Symbolic music generation faces a fundamental trade-off between efficiency and quality. Fine-grained tokenizations achieve strong coherence but incur long sequences and high complexity, while compact tokenizations improve efficiency at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ting-Kang Wang , Chih-Pin Tan , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Collecting robotic manipulation data is expensive, making it impractical to acquire demonstrations for the combinatorially large space of tasks that arise in multi-object, multi-robot, and multi-environment settings. While recent generative…

The imitation of percussive sounds via the human voice is a natural and effective tool for communicating rhythmic ideas on the fly. Thus, the automatic retrieval of drum sounds using vocal percussion can help artists prototype drum patterns…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Alejandro Delgado , SkoT McDonald , Ning Xu , Charalampos Saitis , Mark Sandler

Music representations are the backbone of modern recommendation systems, powering playlist generation, similarity search, and personalized discovery. Yet most embeddings offer little control for adjusting a single musical attribute, e.g.,…

In the task of generating music, the art factor plays a big role and is a great challenge for AI. Previous work involving adversarial training to produce new music pieces and modeling the compatibility of variety in music (beats, tempo,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Abhinav Kaushal Keshari

Music is one of the Gardner's intelligences in his theory of multiple intelligences. How humans perceive and understand music is still being studied and is crucial to develop artificial intelligence models that imitate such processes. Music…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Javier Hernandez-Olivan , Jose R. Beltran

We study the capabilities of generative autoregressive transformer models trained on large amounts of symbolic solo-piano transcriptions. After first pretraining on approximately 60,000 hours of music, we use a comparatively smaller,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Louis Bradshaw , Honglu Fan , Alexander Spangher , Stella Biderman , Simon Colton

Many audio processing tasks require perceptual assessment. The ``gold standard`` of obtaining human judgments is time-consuming, expensive, and cannot be used as an optimization criterion. On the other hand, automated metrics are efficient…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Pranay Manocha , Adam Finkelstein , Richard Zhang , Nicholas J. Bryan , Gautham J. Mysore , Zeyu Jin