Making Machines That Make Music

Explore the fascinating world of machine-generated Carnatic music in this 43-minute conference talk from Strange Loop. Delve into Srihari Sriraman's journey of bridging the gap between machine and human music, focusing on the unique challenges of modeling and generating South Indian classical music. Learn about the data collection process, which involves mining the internet, stitching together diverse pieces, and performing phonetic matching in Indic languages. Discover interesting byproducts of this process, including raga identification and automatic transcription. Experience demos comparing machine-generated and human-performed music, examine code snippets implemented in Clojure/Overtone, and visualize the results through captivating melographs. Gain insights into the innovative approaches used to teach machines fundamental musical concepts, create models for identifying Carnatic music, and develop systems that enable machines to learn and generate music autonomously.