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This work introduces the M6(GPT)3 composer system, capable of generating complete, multi-minute musical compositions with complex structures in any time signature, in the MIDI domain from input descriptions in natural language. The system…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jakub Poćwiardowski , Mateusz Modrzejewski , Marek S. Tatara

In addressing the challenge of interpretability and generalizability of artificial music intelligence, this paper introduces a novel symbolic representation that amalgamates both explicit and implicit musical information across diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yikai Qian , Tianle Wang , Xinyi Tong , Xin Jin , Duo Xu , Bo Zheng , Tiezheng Ge , Feng Yu , Song-Chun Zhu

In automatic music generation, a central challenge is to design controls that enable meaningful human-machine interaction. Existing systems often rely on extrinsic inputs such as text prompts or metadata, which do not allow humans to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xiaoyu Yi , Qi He , Gus Xia , Ziyu Wang

Music editing has emerged as an important and practical area of artificial intelligence, with applications ranging from video game and film music production to personalizing existing tracks according to user preferences. However, existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ali Boudaghi , Hadi Zare

We demonstrate how conditional generation from diffusion models can be used to tackle a variety of realistic tasks in the production of music in 44.1kHz stereo audio with sampling-time guidance. The scenarios we consider include…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mark Levy , Bruno Di Giorgi , Floris Weers , Angelos Katharopoulos , Tom Nickson

In this study, we explore the representation mapping from the domain of visual arts to the domain of music, with which we can use visual arts as an effective handle to control music generation. Unlike most studies in multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Runbang Zhang , Yixiao Zhang , Kai Shao , Ying Shan , Gus Xia

As the volume of video content on the internet grows rapidly, finding a suitable soundtrack remains a significant challenge. This thesis presents EMSYNC (EMotion and SYNChronization), a fast, free, and automatic solution that generates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Serkan Sulun

In this paper we present Bardo Composer, a system to generate background music for tabletop role-playing games. Bardo Composer uses a speech recognition system to translate player speech into text, which is classified according to a model…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lucas N. Ferreira , Levi H. S. Lelis , Jim Whitehead

The automatic generation of controllable co-speech gestures has recently gained growing attention. While existing systems typically achieve gesture control through predefined categorical labels or implicit pseudo-labels derived from motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Youyi Zheng , Yao-Xiang Ding , Kun Zhou

The technology for generating music from textual descriptions has seen rapid advancements. However, evaluating text-to-music (TTM) systems remains a significant challenge, primarily due to the difficulty of balancing performance and cost…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Cheng Liu , Hui Wang , Jinghua Zhao , Shiwan Zhao , Hui Bu , Xin Xu , Jiaming Zhou , Haoqin Sun , Yong Qin

We present a hybrid neural network and rule-based system that generates pop music. Music produced by pure rule-based systems often sounds mechanical. Music produced by machine learning sounds better, but still lacks hierarchical temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Yifei Teng , An Zhao , Camille Goudeseune

Emotions are fundamental to the creation and perception of music performances. However, achieving human-like expression and emotion through machine learning models for performance rendering remains a challenging task. In this work, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Ilya Borovik , Dmitrii Gavrilev , Vladimir Viro

Musicians produce individualized, expressive performances by manipulating parameters such as dynamics, tempo and articulation. This manipulation of expressive parameters is informed by elements of score information such as pitch, meter, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Zhengshan Shi , Carlos Cancino-Chacón , Gerhard Widmer

Music scores are written representations of music and contain rich information about musical components. The visual information on music scores includes notes, rests, staff lines, clefs, dynamics, and articulations. This visual information…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuheng Lin , Zheqi Dai , Qiuqiang Kong

Music composition represents the creative side of humanity, and itself is a complex task that requires abilities to understand and generate information with long dependency and harmony constraints. While demonstrating impressive…

In recent years, Text-to-Audio Generation has achieved remarkable progress, offering sound creators powerful tools to transform textual inspirations into vivid audio. However, existing models predominantly operate directly in the acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Zheqi Dai , Guangyan Zhang , Haolin He , Xiquan Li , Jingyu Li , Chunyat Wu , Yiwen Guo , Qiuqiang Kong

In video game design, audio (both environmental background music and object sound effects) play a critical role. Sounds are typically pre-created assets designed for specific locations or objects in a game. However, user-generated content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Thomas Marrinan , Pakeeza Akram , Oli Gurmessa , Anthony Shishkin

Large language models (LLMs) excel at modeling relationships between strings in natural language and have shown promise in extending to other symbolic domains like coding or mathematics. However, the extent to which they implicitly model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Andrew Shin , Kunitake Kaneko

This paper presents an unsupervised machine learning algorithm that identifies recurring patterns -- referred to as ``music-words'' -- from symbolic music data. These patterns are fundamental to musical structure and reflect the cognitive…

We present Sketch2Sound, a generative audio model capable of creating high-quality sounds from a set of interpretable time-varying control signals: loudness, brightness, and pitch, as well as text prompts. Sketch2Sound can synthesize…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hugo Flores García , Oriol Nieto , Justin Salamon , Bryan Pardo , Prem Seetharaman