Algorithmic Songwriting

Maya Ackerman, San Jose State University

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Songwriting, the art of combining melodies and lyrics, poses new challenges to algorithmic composition. ALYSIA is a machine-learning system that learns the relationship between melodies and lyrics, and uses the resulting model to create new songs in the style of the corpus. While ALYSIA creates melodies for user-provided lyrics, another system, MABLE, creates computer-generated lyrics that convey a coherent story. Original works created with the systems will be shown.