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From: schiebel@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Darrell Schiebel)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: MUSIC and Neural Nets
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Date: 17 Nov 89 22:33:50 GMT
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In article <11471@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) writes:
> In article <882@cf-cm.UUCP> andrew@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Andrew Jones) writes:
> ;As a complete newcomer to the Neural Net arena, I would be interested to
> ;know what research has been done in the area of Neural Networks for musical
> ;applications. Any thoughts?
> 
> The problems that seem interesting are engineering problems (like the
> recognition of instruments or of polyphony), but that hasn't prevented
> a certain amount of "work" in "music." I suggest you leave that to the
> musicians.
>
> E. Handelman
> Music Dept.
> Princeton U.

I'd suggest getting the paper by Teuvo Kohonen entitled "A Self-Learning
Musical Grammar, or `Associative Memory of the Second Kind'"; it was
published in the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
June 18-22, 1989.  The music generated was quite beautiful.

BTW: Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of
	Computer and Information Science, Rakentajanaukio 2 C, SF-02150
        Espoo, Finland.



Darrell Schiebel
(schiebel@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu)