BackendBear

Today we will dive into a bit of history of algorithmic music composition, some of the projects that are out there and the project that I worked on as part of my master thesis.  I had a blast making this episode and it is a topic I am passionate about. References: John A. Maurer IV - “A brief history of algorithmic music composition” https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~blackrse/algorithm.html Donald Jay Grout - "History of Western Music" - https://www.amazon.com/History-Western-Music-Donald-1996-03-30/dp/B01JXT3578  Alpern, Adam (1995) -"Techniques for algorithmic composition of music"http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.23.9364&rep=rep1&type=pdf John Cage - "Cage, Music, art, chess" https://youtu.be/Hva8WMcRyOE  Axis Of Awesome - "4 Chord Song"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I  Dadabots - Generating death metal music using neural networks http://dadabots.com/ Melody Brains - http://melodybrains.com/