The Bachinator goes online

from 21 November 2008, salvaged from a previous blog installation

Winterwell announce the release of the online version of HMM Bach, developed for the University of Edinburgh. HMM Bach is a demo in computer creativity, i.e. computers using artificial intelligence to be creative. HMM Bach works with a human. The human gives it a melody, and it will compose a chorale in the style of J.S.Bach.

The system has analysed Bach's chorales for statistical patterns. It's knowledge of music is captured in two Hidden Markov Models (HMM). Using these models, it can now perform Bach-like harmonisation.

Try it out: HMM Bach

HMM Bach is a nice example of data-analysis for an innovative purpose - which is what Winterwell do as AI and statistical consultants.