Experimental: Bach x AI

When music meets AI, magical things can happen – and by that we don't just mean the Bösendorfer grand piano that plays by itself as if enchanted.

Wanna find out how AI can generate music? Ars Electronica Futurelab Key Researcher & Artist Ali Nikrang, talks about it in our video here:    • Inside Futurelab: Ricercar  

With MuseNet, OpenAI has created a deep neural network that can create musical compositions with various instruments. But it does not compose like a human would: it tries to find out what “building block” should best be used next in a composition after being trained with hundreds of thousands of MIDI files. From this pool of data, the artificial intelligence decides for itself what fits best. Combined with the self-playing capabilities of the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial CEUS computer grand these compositions – like this newly composed piece in the style of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – create an eerie and magical experiment in humanity's relationship to art and performance.

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