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I Keep Counting: An Experiment in Human/AI Co-creative Songwriting Cover

I Keep Counting: An Experiment in Human/AI Co-creative Songwriting

Open Access
|Dec 2021

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Figure 1

The preparation of the composition models took 28 days (D-49 to D-22), before the actual day (D-21) of the song composition. The song arrangement and production was then done in about 18 days, until D-3.

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HookCF/CDm/CFm/C
ChorusAmEmGm Cm/A B♭m CmD
VerseEmD
AC
BridgeCDF♯Maj7G
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Figure 2

Most frequent bi-grams in the Eurovision lyrics dataset along with the number of occurrences each. (Left) All pairs of words; (Right) Nominal groups, or complete sentences. Italic words were selected to make the seed.

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Figure 3

Lyrics, in the order they were generated by GPT-2. The seed is in italics.

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Figure 4

The lead sheet of “I keep counting” resulting from the process described in Section 3. The G* chord in the chorus is discussed at the end of Section 3.2. The slashed bars in the verses indicate where the melody was not fixed before the recording session (see Sections 3.4 and 4).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.93 | Journal eISSN: 2514-3298
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 28, 2021
Accepted on: Sep 9, 2021
Published on: Dec 21, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Gianluca Micchi, Louis Bigo, Mathieu Giraud, Richard Groult, Florence Levé, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.