AI in Audio
Part I: Automated music generation and production
Spring 2019 - Audio Tech Talk Series
March 3, 2019
What is AI?
Terms
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Deep learning
Simple Neural Network
Guitar Pedal
"Neural Network" Guitar Pedal
Examples
YOLO
Progressive growing of GANs
Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation | T. Karras et. al. | 2018
What about music?
We have to go way back...
Wind chimes
China - 1100 BC
Aeolian harp
Greece - 6 BC
Markov chains
Iannis Xenakis - Analogique in 1920s
Enter deep learning...
Symbolic music generation with LSTMs
Doug Eck - Blues Improvisation - 2002
Improved symbolic music generation
Sony CSL - In the style of the Beatles - 2016
Raw audio synthesis with WaveNet
Deep mind - Classical piano - 2016
More hybrid and symbolic approaches
Jukedeck
Symbolic + synthesis - 2016
AIVA
In the style Star Wars Theme - 2017
Popgun
Symbolic pop music - 2017
For music production
First automatic mixing system
Dan Dugan - Microphone Mixer - 1975
Grounded theory (Psychoacoustics)
Enrique Perez-Gonzalez - 2009
Knowledge engineering (Mixing rules)
Stuart Mansbridge - 2012
Deep learning is next...
We need more data
