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Folk the Algorithms
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Folk the Algorithms is a personal blog at highnoongmt.wordpress.com about ai and culture. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Deep learning for assisting the process of music composition”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its write-ups on machine-learning music generation, such as neural-network folk and Irish session tune experiments. One commenter calls a summary of neural music efforts enjoyable.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bringing you the best in synthetic traditions
Most-linked posts?
- Deep learning for assisting the process of music composition2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-16
What Hacker News says?
There's an enjoyable summary of some other efforts in neural network music synthesis here: https://highnoongmt.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/deep-learning-f... The same author's Endless Traditional Music Session supplies all the Irish session music you could ever need, by mechanical means: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~sturm/research/RNNIrishTrad/inde...
Comment linking /2015/08/11/deep-learning-for-assisting-the-process-of-music-composition-part-1/
on “Deepjazz: AI-generated 'jazz'”Submitted Deep learning for assisting the process of music composition as a story · 75 points
HN discussionMy take (as someone working in the area) on how/why we are encouraged by this progress: The model is unconditional i.e. any concept of form at all was learned directly from data, with no real structural hints to what it should learn. Generally you get much stronger "global structure" the more prior information you provide either in the model itself or in the input/targets (such as chord constraints, etc.). This is o…
Comment linking /2015/05/22/lisls-stis-recurrent-neural-networks-for-folk-music-generation/
on “Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning”Submitted Deep learning for assisting the process of music composition as a story · 50 points
HN discussionWell, this field is really exploding right now! I was curious about the performance and searched around a bit: in another other post, the author gives a slightly more detailed explanation of how the tunes are automatically turned into audio: " I convert each ABC tune to MIDI, process it in python (with python-midi) to give a more human-like performance (including some musicians who lack good timing, and a sometimes…
Comment linking /2015/08/07/the-infinite-irish-trad-session/
on “Deep learning for assisting the process of music composition”Submitted Tunes from the AI Frontiers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Millennial Whoop with Derp Learning as a story · 1 points
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