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Project Groover was a service which autonomously composed, sequenced, mixed and mastered musical microgrooves at 140 BPM into a non-stop radio stream. The web interface allowed listeners to download grooves as individual files, and to also train the composition AI through an instant feedback mechanism. The ultimate goal of Project Groover was the algorithmic generation of a music album-like set of songs with minimal human guidance. |
In 2012 I sought to improve my understanding of realtime audio production and streaming and was particularly interested in better integration of scripting languages into the sequencing and mixing workflow. The study quickly evolved into an exploration of algorithmic composition. The project took approx. 100 hours to develop and reused pre-existing and publically available software libraries as much as possible. |
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This project also raised some interesting hypothetical legal questions (which I have not found a clear cut answer for yet) in the field of copyright, such as whether or not e.g. a thousand servers streaming (essentially making available to the public) new generated music 24/7 would sooner or later infringe some existing music, or pre-empt some yet to be commerically published music for that matter. |
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