Machines are in training to be concert virtuosos

• Autores: Chris Baraniuk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3023, 2015, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Prolody, a start-up based in the Netherlands, is pioneering a new approach to synthesized music that emulates the richness of analogue instruments and the sensitivity of human players. Unlike the flat jangle that often typifies synthetic tones, Prolody's sounds are full and alive because they make use of human-produced notes. Its system is setting the scene for beautiful music that is played by a machine with its own aesthetic sense. The team started with the violin--a notoriously difficult instrument to synthesize. They got a human violinist to play tens of thousands of notes and phrases in the studio, encompassing loud and soft, bright and mellow, trembling and majestic. The goal was to capture as much expressiveness as possible, for a computer to digest and process into a system capable of mimicking that expressiveness.