Learning to compose music with RNNs?

• Previous work by Mozer, Todd, others…

• Train net to produce probability distribution on next notes, given past

• Traditional RNNs do capture local structure, such as typical harmony sequences

• RNNs fail to extract global structure

• Result: “Bach Elevator Muzak” :-)

• Question: does LSTM find global structure?

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