Emily Howell Explained
Emily Howell is a computer program created by David Cope,[1] Dickerson Emeriti Professor of Music at UC 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 its Opus 1, Opus 2, and Opus 3 compositions for chamber orchestra and multiple pianos. Its second album Breathless was released in December 2012 by Centaur Records (CRC 3255).[7] [8]
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General references
- Computer Models of Musical Creativity, MIT Press (December 16, 2005),
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Notes and References
- News: David Cope: 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas'. Adams. Tim. 2010-07-10. The Observer. 2017-10-06. en-GB. 0029-7712.
- News: Emily Howell: the computer program that composes classical music. Leach. Ben. Daily Telegraph. 2009-10-22. 2017-10-06. en-GB. 0307-1235.
- Web site: Virtual Composer Makes Beautiful Music and Stirs Controversy. Jacqui. Cheng. 30 September 2009. Ars Technica.
- [David Cope]
- Wiggins. G. A.. Computer Models of Musical Creativity: A Review of Computer Models of Musical Creativity by David Cope. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 14 December 2007. 23. 1. 109–116. 10.1093/llc/fqm025. 24 October 2014. 19 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120319184100/http://yaxu.org/tmp/wiggins-cope.pdf. dead.
- Web site: Emily Howell: From Darkness, Light. Music Composed by a computer program designed by David Cope. From Darkness, Light. www.centaurrecords.com.
- News: Artificial Intelligence Able to Create Music. 2015-03-21. Next Nature Network. 2017-10-06. en-US.
- Web site: Emily Howell: Breathless. Silver Blood. www.centaurrecords.com.