Emily Howell
Emily Howell is a computer program created by David Cope,[1] a music professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2][3] Emily Howell is an interactive interface that "hears" feedback from listeners, and builds its own musical compositions from a source database, derived from a previous composing program called Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI).[4] Cope attempts to “teach” the program by providing feedback so that it can cultivate its own "personal" style.[3] The software appears to be based on latent semantic analysis.[5]
Emily Howell’s first album[6] was released in February 2009 by Centaur Records (CRC 3023). Titled From Darkness, Light, this album contains her Opus 1, Opus 2, and Opus 3 compositions for chamber orchestra and multiple pianos. Her second album Breathless was released in December 2012 by Centaur Records (CRC 3255).[7][8]
References
- Adams, Tim (2010-07-10). "David Cope: 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
- Leach, Ben (2009-10-22). "Emily Howell: the computer program that composes classical music". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
- Cheng, Jacqui (30 September 2009). "Virtual Composer Makes Beautiful Music and Stirs Controversy". Ars Technica.
- David Cope (1987), "Experiments in Music Intelligence." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, San Francisco: Computer Music Assn.
- Wiggins, G. A. (14 December 2007). "Computer Models of Musical Creativity: A Review of Computer Models of Musical Creativity by David Cope" (PDF). Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23 (1): 109–116. doi:10.1093/llc/fqm025.
- "Emily Howell: From Darkness, Light. Music Composed by a computer program designed by David Cope. From Darkness, Light". www.centaurrecords.com.
- "Artificial Intelligence Able to Create Music". Next Nature Network. 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
- "Emily Howell: Breathless. Silver Blood". www.centaurrecords.com.
- Computer Models of Musical Creativity, MIT Press (December 16, 2005), ISBN 0262033380