emcee-3PO takes a text file of music, runs it through a Markov Model, and generates new music to be played with
Archaeopteryx.
It's an idea I've had for a while, which
_why day gave me a good excuse to start.
There's not much there yet -- the first sentence above tells you exactly what it does -- but I hope to add some features to it as time allows:
- Read from sheet music
- Use different instruments instead of simply playing the notes as written / make it symphonic
- Choose probabilities in some smart way to provide to Arkx (right now it's just 100% play this note)
- Mixing multiple songs
I just thought it'd be a fun exercise, but I bet there's some really cool practical stuff this could turn into.
Feel free to watch the repository if you're interested in seeing this develop.
More importantly, and use your imagination here: Do you have any thoughts about what something like this could do?
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Post some samples! We want results :-)
Posted by Tim Gradwell
on Aug 20, 2011 at 02:57 AM UTC - 6 hrs
Will do! It's cheesy now because it'll only do 1 input at a time, so it sounds quite like playing single notes on a cheap keyboard. =)
But I will eventually get it to do multiple instrument inputs. Maybe the next thing on the list in fact!
After I get back from Houston Code Camp today, or maybe tomorrow, I'll generate an MP3 and put it up online.
Posted by
Sammy Larbi
on Aug 20, 2011 at 06:58 AM UTC - 6 hrs
Why not start with MIDI as input and output?
I've tried a few things along this line. My goals have been to synthesize timing and chording and understanding short-to-long term state changes. I never tried doing this with Markov chains but it seems like a natural.
Posted by rogerT
on Aug 20, 2011 at 04:03 PM UTC - 6 hrs
@rogerT: No reason - it just never occurred to me. I kind of like that idea, so thanks!
@Tim Gradwell: Here's a demo (a few seconds in length) of what was output via the example in the github repo:
http://www.codeodor.com/sounds/emcee3po-song1.mp3
Posted by
Sammy Larbi
on Aug 21, 2011 at 02:44 PM UTC - 6 hrs
