Interactive Music Composer Based on Neural Networks
Maskao Nishijima, Kazuyuki Watanabe · University of Michigan Library Repository · 1992
Neuro-Musician is an interactive music composer which plays a jam session with a human pianist, while composing improvisations using neural networks. It employs a new method of handling musical contexts to play several measures of a melody. A melody generation model is invented for this purpose. This model is based on neural networks, and utilizes the following information: melody contours, pitch and duration, and note-on timing. Three kinds of networks are used to implement the melody generation model. This paper presents a description of the model, its mechanism and an evaluation