Ocean Noir
Magic Man
Magic Man is a track from the album Hello World, the first pop album composed with artificial intelligence. Magic Man is a mixture of French pop songs of the 80s, American funk of the 70s, and rock of the fifties. The lead sheet generated by Flow Machines sounds like an earworm that stuck in my head. Here […]
Daddy’s Car in the style of The Beatles
How I composed the song How I composed the song First of all, you have to feed the machine with scores that constitute “inspiration”. All fantasies are possible: one can imagine stylistic mixtures or on the contrary, seek to create the ideal corpus in a particular style or composer. This first step influences the way […]
Ballad of Mr Shadow
It all started with these six notes that hooked my ear : It sounded like an earworm to me. I was singing this melody all the time. The machine had analyzed a dataset of 429 scores of Jazz standards, so there was a lot of ‘music material’ to generate original melodies, millions of possibilities, even […]
American Folk Songs
In 1958 Pete Seeger recorded Black is the Color. I revisited this folk song with the help of an artificial intelligence developed with researchers at Spotify CTRL Paris. You can listen to the original recording from the catalog of Folkways Records. The tool created an original harmonization on Pete Seeger’s voice How it works? The […]
Mafia Love
In one click our four empty bars was filled with notes and chords and we heard this : Excited by this proposal, we named it by compressing the names of the two songs: Yesterchelle. The melody was not a mix of the two sources of inspiration but an original proposal with no plagiarism. I recorded […]