{"id":1937,"date":"2020-12-23T18:09:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1332755"},"modified":"2020-12-23T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:09:52","slug":"watch-this-ai-is-playing-an-infinite-bass-solo-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Watch: This AI is playing an infinite bass solo on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If Frank Zappa\u2019s endless guitar solos<\/a> somehow leave your earbuds craving more, music-hackers Dadabots are here to satisfy your auditory desires.<\/p>\n

The team of CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski recently used a recurrent neural network (RNN) to generate an infinite bass solo that they\u2019re live-streaming on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The duo trained their neural network on a two-hour improvised bass solo by musician Adam Neely.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy strategy was to use the same bass, same pickup, same tone, improvise basslines over an 85 beats per minute drum groove, and keep everything in E-minor so the end result wouldn\u2019t be too chromatic,\u201d Neely explained on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dadabots then ran the recording through SampleRNN, an audio generation model that analyzes a piece of music to predict the sounds that should come next.<\/p>\n

[Read: Confetti, koalas, and candles of love: Backstage at Eurovision\u2019s AI song contest<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

Their initial attempt produced too much noise, \u201cslow and soupy\u201d bass patterns, and a \u201cmushy\u201d timbre, so they fine-tuned the dataset and dropped the sample rate. This removed the noise and helped the RNN learn patterns that were twice as long.<\/p>\n

Dadabots then curated the data to leave mostly fast licks, as SampleRNN works best with quicker tempos.<\/p>\n

They also experimented with different temperature values, a setting that controls the randomness of the output:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sometimes the high temperatures sound like two basses playing at the same time. As if it were some kind of\u2026 shadow bass\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The resulting solo can be grating, but also surprisingly melodic.<\/p>\n