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Stand-alone music creation using machine learning

Nilsson, Adam LU (2017) In Master's Theses in Mathematical Sciences FMA820 20171
Mathematics (Faculty of Engineering)
Abstract
Creating music have always been a hard thing to do, as time have passed there have been much research done on the topic of creating high quality music. New approaches and theories are appearing on how to generate music, the latest one (as writing this paper) is based on deep neural networks. In this paper Nottinghams abc notation database will be the main training set used as training data for the classifier. This paper will mainly investigating Recurrent neural networks (RNN) capability to generate music as they are created for pattern recognition in sequences of data. Will see evaluated different RNN models such as bidirectional RNN and seq2seq.

This thesis shows that deep neural networks are able to generate music how-
ever... (More)
Creating music have always been a hard thing to do, as time have passed there have been much research done on the topic of creating high quality music. New approaches and theories are appearing on how to generate music, the latest one (as writing this paper) is based on deep neural networks. In this paper Nottinghams abc notation database will be the main training set used as training data for the classifier. This paper will mainly investigating Recurrent neural networks (RNN) capability to generate music as they are created for pattern recognition in sequences of data. Will see evaluated different RNN models such as bidirectional RNN and seq2seq.

This thesis shows that deep neural networks are able to generate music how-
ever improving the accuracy with different size, depth, RNN cells and other means to the networks is much harder. Through all networks tested there where never any large difference to the accuracy to the validation set. (Less)
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author
Nilsson, Adam LU
supervisor
organization
course
FMA820 20171
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Music generation, machine learning, music improvisation, deep learning, LSTM, Recurrent Neural Networks
publication/series
Master's Theses in Mathematical Sciences
report number
LUTFMA-3330-2017
ISSN
1404-6342
other publication id
2017:E56
language
English
id
8939229
date added to LUP
2018-05-30 17:44:08
date last changed
2018-05-30 17:44:08
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  abstract     = {{Creating music have always been a hard thing to do, as time have passed there have been much research done on the topic of creating high quality music. New approaches and theories are appearing on how to generate music, the latest one (as writing this paper) is based on deep neural networks. In this paper Nottinghams abc notation database will be the main training set used as training data for the classifier. This paper will mainly investigating Recurrent neural networks (RNN) capability to generate music as they are created for pattern recognition in sequences of data. Will see evaluated different RNN models such as bidirectional RNN and seq2seq.

This thesis shows that deep neural networks are able to generate music how-
ever improving the accuracy with different size, depth, RNN cells and other means to the networks is much harder. Through all networks tested there where never any large difference to the accuracy to the validation set.}},
  author       = {{Nilsson, Adam}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{Master's Theses in Mathematical Sciences}},
  title        = {{Stand-alone music creation using machine learning}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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