A comparison of melody created by artificial intelligence and human based on mathematical model

Ziming Li, Shengchen Li*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

There have been many achievements in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automatically compose melody. But there still need statistical methods to evaluate the degree of similarity between AI-generated melody and human composed melody. With N-gram models, this research compared the distribution of transitions of a combination of rhythm and pitch of melodies between melodies generated by AI (Magenta of Google) and the original British and American folk songs pieces used for training. The result shows that the AI system is good at modeling the common patterns of note transitions which appear more frequently in the data set of human-composed melodies than humans, and such patterns appear more frequently in the generated melodies compared with human-composed melody. The experiment shows that using the N-gram model to analyze the distribution characteristics of pitch and rhythm features of melody to distinguish between the AI-generated melody dataset and human composed melody dataset is a direction worthy of further research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology CSMT 2019, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsHaifeng Li, Lin Ma, Shengchen Li, Chunying Fang, Yidan Zhu
PublisherSpringer
Pages121-130
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789811527555
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology, CSMT 2019 - Harbin, China
Duration: 26 Dec 201929 Dec 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume635
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference7th Conference on Sound and Music Technology, CSMT 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period26/12/1929/12/19

Keywords

  • Melody
  • N-gram
  • Pitch
  • Rhythm
  • Similarity

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