May Third! Two Thousand Nineteen!
Announcing the release of the greatest video game ever released on May 3rd, 2019. Purple Chicken Spaceman! I haven’t played it, but it has some of my music! (that’s how you know they have good taste!)
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AI #001 – MuseNet on Twitch
OpenAI’s MuseNet started streaming on twitch.
https://www.twitch.tv/openai
MuseNet generates MIDI data. That data is then rendered out using synthesizers that you can hear on the twitch stream.
Composition Quality: As good as most people. The Bach styles are quite good (better than most people). The contemporary styles like Broadway, Movie Themes, and TV Themes are not as good. Okay, most of them sound terrible – but they would be passable if played by people.
Audio Quality: Worse than most people. These renderings aren’t going to take anyone’s jobs, and there is little of use here beyond novelty – but that’s not the AI’s fault. Someone could hook it up to better virtual instruments, and I’d bump this rating up.
Importance: Medium. This isn’t the first MIDI AI to come along, but it is fairly general, in that it can current do a number of different styles. It also has a nice web interface and streams on Twitch sometimes!
Long-Term Prospects: Low. There are a lot of abstractions going on here. The training data is MIDI, so the output is also MIDI. This AI will never learn how to play the violin or pipe organ, but it does a good job of writing notes for a violin. This is a composition helper tool more than a finished-music generation tool.
This technology does a good job of understanding chords and melodies. If you pair this with a better MIDI rendering engine you could create usable background music for public spaces and video games.
The note-based MIDI approach is a lighter-weight solution that doesn’t require as much computing power as generating a 16-bit 44khz waveform directly.
You can try it out now! (through May 15th, 2019)
https://openai.com/blog/musenet/#try
It only outputs audio files – so the quality you get is the quality you get.
Taco Cat
Symmetry
This piece has a good beat and you can dance to it… assuming you are a dark, lurking horror with a betentacled face and an urge to consume life forces.
You can download the full uncompressed files here!
Mega Aggro Calm!!!!11!!1!!!
River Flute
I enjoy relaxing background music things. I looked out into the world for this music, and there was a lot of music, but none of it was right. When I want calm – this is the kind of thing I want! Super crazy hit-you-in-the-head calm! I want mega-aggro-calm. The flute in this recording is a standard C flute slowed to half speed. The river is running at normal river speed.
You can download the full uncompressed files here!
And then I found $5!
Midnight Tale
Gather ’round the tavern’s fire and I will share a tale for as long as I have ale. Hah! “Tale and ale!” I’m not guaranteeing rhymes, though. That was a coincidence. I was playing lute for an uninterested group of tavern-goers, when all of a sudden, I remembered that I had a sandwich for lunch! It looks like I’m out of ale, so that is the end of my tale.
You can download the full uncompressed files here!
Expelliarm… oooh! Donuts!
Magistar
The portal to my wizarding school is at the back of a payday loan place in Windsor, Ontario. It isn’t quite as cool as that magic train station, but the loan place is open late. There is also a Tim Hortons across the street. So that’s nice.
You can download the full uncompressed files here!