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International Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence

ICMAI 2002: Music and Artificial Intelligence pp 119–132Cite as

Interacting with a Musical Learning System: The Continuator

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The Continuator system is an attempt to bridge the gap between two classes of traditionally incompatible musical systems: 1) interactive musical systems, limited in their ability to generate stylistically consistent material, and 2) music composition systems, which are fundamentally not interactive. The purpose of Continuator is to extend the technical ability of musicians with stylistically consistent, automatically learnt musical material. This requires the ability for the system to build operational representations of musical styles in real time, and to adapt quickly to external musical information. The Continuator is based on a Markov model of musical styles augmented to account for efficient real time learning of musical styles and to arbitrary external bias. The paper describes the main technical issues at stake concerning the integration of an agnostic learning scheme in an interactive instrument, and reports on realworld experiments performed with various musicians.

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  1. SONY CSL-Paris, 6, rue Amyot, 75005, Paris, France

    Francois Pachet

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  1. Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh, 12 Nicolson Square, EH8 9DF, Edinburgh, UK

    Christina Anagnostopoulou  & Miguel Ferrand  & 

  2. Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 80 South Bridge, EH1 1HN, Edinburgh, UK

    Alan Smaill

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Pachet, F. (2002). Interacting with a Musical Learning System: The Continuator. In: Anagnostopoulou, C., Ferrand, M., Smaill, A. (eds) Music and Artificial Intelligence. ICMAI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2445. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45722-4_12

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