An experimental album

[Bob Sturm]

Hello all,

For the past 6 months, the music album “Let’s Have Another Gan Ainm” has been distributed to reviewers and listeners in Europe and the USA as a new release of Irish traditional music. We have now publicly revealed that each track on the album includes computer-generated material, specifically material generated by our deep neural network folk-rnn.

Reviews of the album, both published and private, have been very positive. The album even received radio play. More information about our experiment and the music on the album (e.g., how each came to be) can be found in our technical report. We show exactly what folk-rnn generated and the changes that were made. More details about the reception of the album will be provided at a later time.

In the meantime, enjoy the album!

https://soundcloud.com/oconaillfamilyandfriends

Also, if you are in London in early October, check out this concert at the O'Reilly AI conference: https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-eu/public/schedule/detail/72410

The winning piece of the folk-rnn competition will be premiered: https://folkrnn.org/competition/

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Bob L. Sturm, Associate Professor

Speech, Music and Hearing

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
https://highnoongmt.wordpress.com