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Entirely algorithmically generated music album is now on Spotify

by bozho·11y ago·4 comments·view on hn ↗

"A Rose Smiles for a Man" (https://play.spotify.com/album/3vCyoGxNzaI8MB1QUOLN1U), probably the first music album entirely composed and performed by a computer algorithm, is now on Spotify.

I developed the algorithm over the past few years, Computoser (http://computoser.com) Now some of the best pieces are packaged in an album with a name that is also algorithmically generated.

Computoser is not the first composition algorithm, and "A Rose Smiles for a Man" is not the first album to be said to be algorithmically composed, but it is most likely the first that required no human input whatsoever.

Has anyone done a project with a genetic algorithm and quantitative input from humans to produce generative music?

Seems like it would be not to difficult to source listeners via some kind of songbattle site[0] or Mechanical Turk if you wanted to to AB tests.

[0] Maybe different strains of the same algorithm competing head-to-head rather than through AB testing?

check out Bloom for iOS, by Brian Eno.

http://www.generativemusic.com

Great job! Is there a way to mix up the instruments used? Most of the songs sounded very similar because of the starting piano keys. With the exception of "Life Talks to a Story" which I found to be the most diverse.

Cool stuff!

great job! Sounds great!