Abstract—The art of composing music can be automated with deep learning along with the knowledge of a few implicit heuristics. In this proposed paper, we aim at building a model that composes Carnatic oriented contemporary tune, that is based on the features of given training song. It implements the task of automated musical composition using a pipeline where various key features of the resultant tune are constructed separately step by step and finally combined into a complete piece. LSTM models were used for creating four different modules namely, the Tune module, the Motif module, the Endnote module, and the Gamaka module. Four models were built namely - Motif, Tune, End Note, and Gamaka whose training accuracy was 86%, 98%, 60%, and 72% respectively. Our work focuses primarily on generating a user friendly Carnatic music composer that accepts the initial user phrase to compose a simultaneous sequence of notes and motifs for the required duration.
Index Terms—RNN-LSTM, composition, deep learning, Carnatic music, AI.
Hari Kumar is with the Ericsson Research Labs, Ericsson, India (e-mail: n.hari.kumar@ericsson.com).
P. S Ashwin and Haritha Ananthakrishnan are with the Computer Science Engineering Department of SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, TamilNadu, India (e-mail: ashwin16015@cse.ssn.edu.in, haritha16038@cse.ssn.edu.in).
Cite: N. Hari Kumar, P. S Ashwin, and Haritha Ananthakrishnan, "MellisAI - An AI Generated Music Composer Using RNN-LSTMs," International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 247-252, 2020.
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