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A (brief?) return to music composition

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Not entirely happy with these, but I'll post them anyway:

 

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    I wonder if you're aware that today's A.I. tools are already capable of creating contrapuntal works that give imo much better results than what you've presented here.  The biggest drawback, as you men

  • I'm gradually improving the program. Obviously, it's not perfect. It's just getting better and better. As far as why I'm doing this, it's because I want to understand the nature of music. I don't care

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I composed this short piece today. It was largely an experiment.

 

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So far, this is the best canon I've written:

 

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Two short compositions written today:

 

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Revised the two previously posted compositions:

 

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Another one:

 

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Another composition of mine, written today:

 

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A short canon:

 

 

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Another canon:

 

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Yet another short canon, this one composed today:

 

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A kind of fugue, composed yesterday by me:
 

 

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I designed a wonderful computer, still a work in progress, that helps me with music composition. I put in a melody, and it elaborates on this melody by changing it up and adding harmony and counterpoint as rich and dense as I wish it to be. It's still in an early stage of development, but the results are extremely promising. I have indeed hit upon some of the deepest secrets behind music composition, after years of studying, experimenting, and thinking about the nature of music. Here is an early song my computer program and I composed. More and better is yet to come:

 

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Over the last couple of hours, I have vastly improved on the functioning of the program I designed. Here is a sound file to prove it: 

 

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Here is an early song my computer program and I composed. More and better is yet to come:

 

I'm sorry I didn't hear any melody in it. It's this electronic music?

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29 minutes ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

I'm sorry I didn't hear any melody in it. It's this electronic music?

Henry

 

You're right; there was no melody. Due to an error in my code, the input melody got translated into a sustained unison throughout the entire piece. I fixed that problem. Now, as you can see in this five-voice piece, there is some melody involved, albeit only simple melody because I'm still in the testing phase:

 

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It's getting better and better. Have a listen to the work of me and the latest iteration of the program I designed:

 

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My program is approaching its final iteration as I continue to experiment and learn more about music composition. Here's an even better piece yet. Note that only one melody was provided by me; all the rest were calculated by my program, the most salient being the uppermost voice (the others are a bit faint, though; I probably should have emphasized their volume. Oh well, I can do that when my program gets even better):

 

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Whoops, I made one mistake in the melodic dictation. The fixed version will be coming in a few minutes.

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Here is the fixed version of the piece my computer program and I created. I gave it a melody, and it provided the counterpoint and harmony.

 

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I really need a way to enter melodies into my program efficiently and without error. The previous upload had several mistakes in it. Here's another version in another key (key affects the nature of the output), with the errors in the melody input fixed:

 

 

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Here's the longest piece I've ever written, thanks in part to the computer program I designed: 

 

 

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