The fact that artificial intelligence is capable of painting and creating music is no surprise today. Moreover, the AI does it quite well. Remember at least the recent release of a pop-style album, where all the music was created using a neural network. But this time we have good news for fans of "heavier music", namely, in the black metal genre. After all, already now you can listen to or download from the official website an album called Coditany of Timeness, which was written by artificial intelligence.
At first glance, the album Coditany of Timeness does not particularly stand out among hundreds of other albums in its genre. But this is only until you realize that no musician was involved in the creation of these music tracks. No guitars, drums or vocalists were used in the recording process. It was created as part of the Dadabots project, which is led by musicians and part-time researchers in the field of artificial intelligence CJ Carr and Zak Zukowski. They use a heavily modified SampleRNN algorithm to create music.
To train the neural network, the music of the New York black metal band Krallice and their album "Diotima" were used. The tracks from the album were broken into tiny pieces and fed to the neural network. This is how artificial intelligence mastered a new genre for itself, felt the music and learned to create its own unique compositions on its basis. The training looked like this: the neural network listened to the fragment and tried to guess which fragment would be next. If she guessed correctly, it strengthened her confidence that she was heading in the right direction.
At first, artificial intelligence just generated random sounds. The authors of the project claim that it was quite difficult to listen to it due to the excessive texturality and grotesqueness of such music. It took over three days and five million training cycles for the music to really start to resemble the black metal genre. The more the system was trained, the more recognizable the compositions it created became. The resulting album consists of only five tracks, which the Dafabots musicians are very proud of. They plan to continue making albums of a wide variety of genres and releasing them on a weekly basis. You can listen to the music at this link.
Sergey Gray