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Music Generation Using an Interactive Evolutionary Algorithm

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Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (MedPRAI 2019)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1144))

Abstract

Music generation with the aid of computers has been recently grabbed the attention of many scientists in the area of artificial intelligence. Deep learning techniques have evolved sequence production methods for this purpose. Yet, a challenging problem is how to evaluate a music generated by a machine. In this paper, a methodology has been developed based upon an interactive evolutionary optimization method, with which the scoring of the generated musics are primarily performed by human expertise, during the training. This music quality scoring is modeled using a BiLSTM recurrent neural network. Moreover, the innovative generated music through a Genetic algorithm, will then be evaluated using this BiLSTM network. The results of this mechanism clearly show that the proposed method is able to create pleasurable melodies with desired styles and pieces. This method is also quite fast, compared to the state-of-the-art data-oriented evolutionary systems.

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Farzaneh, M., Mahdian Toroghi, R. (2020). Music Generation Using an Interactive Evolutionary Algorithm. In: Djeddi, C., Jamil, A., Siddiqi, I. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. MedPRAI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1144. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37548-5_16

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