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Doug Eck

07/22/17

@ Y Combinator

The challenge is to make our models good enough and easy to use so that even non-expert musicians can find them genuinely musically engaging, focusing on generating interesting sounds rather than just melodies.

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Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta

@ Y Combinator

Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta

07/22/17

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Doug Eck

07/22/17

@ Y Combinator

To make music interesting, we need to incorporate hierarchical patterning and conditional models that can generate variations, such as chord changes, to create more engaging compositions.

Doug Eck

07/22/17

@ Y Combinator

We're rethinking our music sequence generation work, moving beyond simple models to care about expressive timing, dynamics, and polyphony, aiming to create high-quality music generation tools.

Doug Eck

07/22/17

@ Y Combinator

The goal is to create tools that allow composers to offload interesting aspects of their work, like expressive timing and musical texture.

David Russell

11/19/22

@ tonebase Guitar

We must continue to exploit the beauty of our instrument, as it has the potential to create magical sounds.

Doug Eck

07/22/17

@ Y Combinator

These models are learning the principal axes of variance in music, identifying what's most important while having limited memory.

Doug Eck

07/22/17

@ Y Combinator

We haven't yet created a model that can generate an entire song because we haven't perfected the conditional aspects of the LSTM yet, which is crucial for handling long-term musical structures.

Doug Eck

07/22/17

@ Y Combinator

We're gathering valuable feedback from artists using our tools, which is guiding us to improve the usability and fluidity of our music generation tools, especially for integration with software like Ableton.

Doug Eck

07/22/17

@ Y Combinator

Musicians with strong improvisational skills have been able to create interesting results using our primitive sequence generation tools, turning it into a collaborative game rather than just a tool.

Luis von Ahn

12/01/23

@ The Logan Bartlett Show

As we branch out into subjects like math and music, the biggest challenge is creating a learning experience that is as engaging and effective as our language courses.