Depending on how you feel about loud and heavy music in the death metal genre (English death metal, from death - “death”), a new example of using artificial intelligence to create music can be both an ear balm and something for you. something comparable to a plane falling apart during landing. There’s an uninterrupted stream of neural network-generated death metal streaming live on YouTube right now, and regardless of personal musical taste, it’s still undoubtedly an impressive application of AI (Artificial intelligence) in a creative aspect.
CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski are two musicians with a strong interest in algorithmically generated music. For several years, the duo has been working on creating a recurrent neural network that can create original compositions after training on datasets from different musical directions. Early experiments included many genres before the duo discovered metal and punk music, both of which proved to be best suited to artificial intelligence.
“We have noticed that electronic and hip-hop music does not lend itself to neural networks for learning as well as organic and electro-acoustic compositions,” the musicians write in their paper. . “Music genres like metal and punk seem to work much better, perhaps because the weird artifacts of neural synthesis (noise, chaos, grotesque voice mutations) are aesthetically suited to these styles. In addition, their fast tempo and use of free-flowing performance techniques fit well with rhythmic distortions. (a tool for training neural networks of sound generation)."
The end result of the partners' work is called . So far, the neural network has already released 10 albums inspired by musical groups such as Dillinger Escape Plan, Meshuggah and NOFX. Also, in addition to creating music, algorithms were created to generate album art and track titles.
The new Dadabots project is a live stream on YouTube called "Relentless Doppleganger". For this broadcast, Dadabots received music training from the Canadian band Archspire. In a recent interview, CJ Carr said that the system was better at accepting Archspire's fast and technical metal than anything it had been given before.
“Most of the networks we coached were making bad music—musical soup,” CJ Carr told Motherboard. "The tracks were unstable and literally fell apart."
But with death metal, the output was so good that the musicians launched a live stream that autonomously plays everything that the neural network generates in real time. The result is a heartbreakingly intense stream of non-stop death metal.
You can listen to Dadabots live broadcast in the player below.
Source: 3dnews.ru