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From: andrew@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Andrew Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: MUSIC and Neural Nets
Keywords: THANKS!
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Date: 27 Nov 89 18:12:42 GMT
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I would like to thank all those who have e-mailed responses to my original
request concerning musical applications of Neural Networks. Each message
was very welcome. I have replied to each message I have received, so
hopefully the mailers are already aware of my gratitude.

Some of the mailers asked if I could summarize responses to the net. A number
of people pointed me towards the work of Teuvo Kohonen. He has published
the following paper:

A Self-Learning Musical Grammar, or 'Associative Memory of the Second
Kind'
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1989, Vol 1,
p. I-1 to I-5.

Apparently the music generated has something of the flavour of J.S. Bach.

I understand that Teuvo Kohonen will present a "Neural Concert" on
Monday Jan. 15th, 1990 at the 1990 IJCNN. I wish I could be there!

Apart from this, the Computer Music Journal has devoted Vol. 13 nos. 3 & 4
to this topic.

Rick Romero (rr2p+@edu.cmu.andrew) stated that he is considering getting
involved in this area; Andrew McCallum (andrewm@edu.dartmouth.eleazer)
informed me that Jamshed Bharucha, Prof. of Psychology at Dartmouth
College, has been doing research into NN's and the perception of music
for quite a while. He can be reached at bharucha@dartmouth.edu.

Finally, I have not yet received a posting by Eliot Handelman, except
that Darrell Schiebel included at least part of it in his posting (things
are V E R Y  S L O W getting through to us at the moment). Eliot Handelman
is saying, I think, that non-musicians should avoid this subject area.
One of the people who e-mailed me stated that he disagreed with this
opinion. I suppose it depends what you mean by "musician".

Anyway, thanks again to all those who expressed an interest!

ANDREW
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