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Monday, December 30, 2002

"MUSIC: Composer harnesses artificial intelligence to create music"
Just as IBM's Deep Blue showed the world a computer can play chess as well as a human master, Eduardo Reck Miranda, a researcher for the Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc., aims to demonstrate a computer program able to compose original music. So far, neural networks have succeeded in imitating distinct musical styles, but truly original compositions have remained elusive. Miranda is tackling that problem with an orchestra of virtual musicians � called agents � that interact to compose original music.
Text: http://www.eet.com/at/news/OEG20021230S0015