You might recall a few months back, a US teen created a computer program that was able to write and perform its own Kanye West-inspired raps. Well, now scientists in the UK have gone one further and have made a computer program that can create its own folk songs.
As Consequence Of Sound reports, scientists in the UK have trained their ‘Bot Dylan’, named for the US folk legend Bob Dylan, by scanning through over 23,000 pieces of Irish folk music. By doing this, it has ‘taught’ the program a pattern, which it has learnt to the point where it can now ‘predict’ what comes next in any given piece of folk music. By doing this, the program can now create its own Irish folk music.
Dr. Oded Ben-Tal, a music technology expert at Kingston University in London, spoke to The Daily Mail, saying “We didn’t expect any of the machine-generated melodies to be very good.” “But we, and several other musicians we worked with, were really surprised at the quality of the music the system created.”
To be fair, for a computer program, the music its created is surprisingly authentic. Now all we have to do is sit back and wait for that Kanye AI to match up with ‘Bot Dylan’ so that we can have one of the craziest genre mashups of all time. Check out ‘Bot Dylan’s’ work below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnBnvljEQzs
