Making Machines that Make Music
summary
Models Carnatic music end to end: builds a 177,000‑line Eden raga file (≈5,000 ragas) by scraping multiple sites in minutes, extracts pitch with Praat, folds frequencies to MIDI and tonic, and produces pitch histograms and melographs. Implements Clojure/Overtone synths plus PASR pitch envelopes and gamaka primitives to get continuity that greatly closes the gap to human singing. Random and raga‑weighted generators sound reasonable, Markov/LSTM attempts fail, and simple chi‑square Raga identification works reliably.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Synthetic Music
- 2:36Outline
- 4:23Carnatic Music
- 11:11Overtone
- 13:19Fuzzy
- 13:59Agnostic
- 14:09Synthesis
- 16:18Gamma Cones
- 18:23Gamma Combs
- 21:49Generation
- 23:26Music Brainz
- 24:30Raga Dictionary
- 24:47Data Analysis
- 31:05Generating Music
- 35:46Markov Chains
- 37:25Automatic Transcription
- 37:48Raga Identification
- 39:49Conclusion
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