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Alexandre DuBreuil
Alexandre DuBreuil
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Alexandre DuBreuil

Alexandre DuBreuil is a software engineer and generative music artist. Through collaborations with bands and artists, he has worked on many generative art projects, such as generative video systems for music bands in concerts that create visuals based on the underlying musical structure, a generative drawing software that creates new content based on a previous artist's work, and generative music exhibits in which the generation is based on real-time events and data. Machine learning has a central role in his music generation projects, and Alexandre has been using Magenta since its release for inspiration, music production, and as the cornerstone for making autonomous music generation systems that create endless soundscapes.
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Technical requirements

In this chapter, we'll use the following tools:

  • A command line or bash to launch Magenta from the Terminal
  • Python and its libraries to write music generation code using Magenta
  • Magenta to generate music in MIDI
  • MuseScore or FluidSynth to listen to the generated MIDI

In Magenta, we'll make the use of the MusicVAE and GrooVAE models. We'll be explaining these models in depth, but if you feel like you need more information, the model's README in Magenta's source code (github.com/tensorflow/magenta/tree/master/magenta/models) is a good place to start. You can also take a look at Magenta's code, which is well documented. We also provide additional content in the last section, Further reading.

The code for this chapter is in this book's code GitHub in the Chapter04 folder, located at github.com/PacktPublishing/hands-on-music...

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Alexandre DuBreuil

Alexandre DuBreuil is a software engineer and generative music artist. Through collaborations with bands and artists, he has worked on many generative art projects, such as generative video systems for music bands in concerts that create visuals based on the underlying musical structure, a generative drawing software that creates new content based on a previous artist's work, and generative music exhibits in which the generation is based on real-time events and data. Machine learning has a central role in his music generation projects, and Alexandre has been using Magenta since its release for inspiration, music production, and as the cornerstone for making autonomous music generation systems that create endless soundscapes.
Read more about Alexandre DuBreuil