Le Continuator
French version available soon!
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris créer par François Pachet
The Continuator learns how to play like you. All the time, continuously. With what it learns, the Continuator engages in an infinite dialog with you (with yourself ?). As playing goes, the conversation becomes more and more interesting
How to interact with a style learning machine ? Can such an interaction pass the musical Turing test ? How to create and sustain musical excitment?
The Continuator project involves a real time interaction with a system that learns musical styles. With the Continuator, users can play music as they wish, and the system will automatically engage in a dialogue by producing musical phrases designed as continuations of user input. Gradually, the dialogue becomes more and more interesting and challenging as the system continuously learns from all the previous interactions. We are interested in the forms of excitement produced, and the links with, e.g. the theory of Flow.
Read more:
When Children Reflect on Their Playing Style: Experiment with the Continuator and Children
FRANÇOIS PACHET, Sony CSL, Paris AND ANNA RITA ADDESSI, University of Bologna