World’s first pop song composed by AI released this week

Earlier this week, Sony CSL research released the first ever pop song to be composed entirely by an AI system which is called Flow Machines. A human musician, a French composer named Benoit Carre produced, mixed, and wrote the lyrics for the song but the melody and harmony of the track were composed entirely by Flow Machines.

In order to create an artificial intelligence system like Flow Machines capable of composing music, programmers had to feed the program thousands and thousands of examples of sheet music from a large database. The sheet music in this database consisted of songs of varying styles. After Flow Machines analyzed all of the sheet music, a human composer gave the AI system a style prompt as a basis for a composition. Flow Machines was able to take that initial prompt and turn it into a complete melody and harmony.

Flow Machines uses a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning that enables it to analyze vast amount of data, in this case sheet music, and recognize patterns which it can then draw from to recreate a new product, in this case, a composition.

The track is called “Daddy’s Car” and will soon be released as part of an album of songs composed entirely by artificial intelligence. The upcoming album is expected to be released some time in 2017.

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Source: factmag.com/2016/09/22/hear-first-complete-pop-song-composed-artificial-intelligence/