Emily Howell

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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]

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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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  1. Adams, Tim (2010-07-10). "David Cope: 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas'". The Observer. ISSN   0029-7712 . Retrieved 2017-10-06.
  2. Leach, Ben (2009-10-22). "Emily Howell: the computer program that composes classical music". Daily Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 2017-10-06.
  3. 1 2 Cheng, Jacqui (30 September 2009). "Virtual Composer Makes Beautiful Music and Stirs Controversy". Ars Technica.
  4. David Cope (1987), "Experiments in Music Intelligence." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, San Francisco: Computer Music Assn.
  5. Wiggins, G. A. (14 December 2007). "Computer Models of Musical Creativity: A Review of Computer Models of Musical Creativity by David Cope" (PDF). Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23 (1): 109–116. doi:10.1093/llc/fqm025. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  6. "Emily Howell: From Darkness, Light. Music Composed by a computer program designed by David Cope. From Darkness, Light". www.centaurrecords.com.
  7. "Artificial Intelligence Able to Create Music". Next Nature Network. 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
  8. "Emily Howell: Breathless. Silver Blood". www.centaurrecords.com.