MotifMax Automated Music Composition using Motifs

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MotifMax Automated Music Composition using
Motifs Transformations

• Anwar Hossain

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Objective

• To create a scalable framework for music
  composition using
• Given sets of motifs
• Customizable transformations Operations
• Flexi Rule-sets
• Evolution
• To understand the correlation among motifs and
  approaches used by some composers

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Looking Back at history

• Early Music
• Classical Music
• Romantic Music
• Twentieth Century Music
• Neo-Romantic Music

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Motivation

• John Williams
• In opera there is sometimes theme music for each
  character
• Situational Theme

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Approach

• Object-Oriented Approach
• Motif Format
• StartMotif------
• 480 E 3 100
• 480 C 4 110
• 480 B 3 120
• 960 A 3 127
• EndMotif-------
• Note Length
• Note Name
• Note Octave
• Note Volume

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ApproachContinued

• Object-Oriented Approach
• Transformations
• Shift Pitch
• Scale Time
• Change Volume
• Inverse
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ApproachContinued

• Flexi Rule-Sets
• Experimental
• Might help understand some composers approach
  vice versa
• Personalized rule-sets helps to create your own
  style
• Independent and Joint distribution
• Implemented in Limited Scope

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ApproachContinued

• Evolution Survival of the Fittest
• Not Implemented yet
• Could Create Fitness Functions
• Volume
• Pitch Class Profile
• Viewpoint Representation Might help

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Examples

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Multitrack

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Demontration of the program

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Questions?