On an Ethical Use of Neural Networks: A Case Study on a North Indian Raga (original) (raw)

Time-Based Raga Recommendation and Information Retrieval of Musical Patterns in Indian Classical Music Using Neural Networks

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI), 2017

In Indian Classical Music (ICM) perspective, Raga is formed from the different and correct combination of notes. If it is observed the history of Indian Classical Raga in ICM, the playing or serving each of the ragas has some unique sessions. The procedure is to suggest the classifications of playing a raga has been attempted to display by explaining unique musical features and pattern matching. This contribution has been represented how music structures can be advanced through a more conceptual demonstration and consent to unambiguously describe process of computational modeling of Musicology which signify the challenge on complete musical composition from the elementary vocal objects of ICM usage using Neural Networks. In Neural network the samples of various ragas have been taken as input and classify them according to the times of the performance. Over 90% accuracy level has achieved using entire Confusion Matrices and Error Histogram performance evaluation technique.

Folk the Algorithms: (Mis)Applying Artificial Intelligence to Folk Music

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music, 2021

This chapter motivates the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to modeling styles of folk music. In this context, we focus particularly on questions about the meaningful evaluation of such AI, and argue that music practitioners should be integral to the research pursuit. We ground our discussion in specific music AI that model symbolic transcriptions of traditional dance music of Ireland and Scandinavia. Finally, we discuss several ethical dimensions of such work.

The Problem of Musical Creativity and its Relevance for Ethical and Legal Decisions towards Musical AI

2020

Because of its non-representational nature, music has always had familiarity with computational and algorithmic methodologies for automatic composition and performance. Today, AI and computer technology are transforming systems of automatic music production from passive means within musical creative processes into ever more autonomous active collaborators of human musicians. This raises a large number of interrelated questions both about the theoretical problems of artificial musical creativity and about its ethical consequences. Considering two of the most urgent ethical problems of Musical AI (music job replacement and machine musical authorship), we show in this essay the strict dependence of every form of acknowledgment of a moral and legal status to systems of automatic music production from the theoretical account of musical creativity by turns implicitly or explicitly adopted, arguing, on the basis of pragmatic reasons, for the necessity and the desirability of this acknowledgment.

Music, Intelligence and Artificiality

2000

The discipline of Music-AI is defined as that activity which seeks to program computers to perform musical tasks in an intelligent, which possibly means humanlike way. A brief historical survey of different approaches within the discipline is presented. Two particular issues arise: the explicit representation of knowledge; and symbolic and subsymbolic representation and processing. When attempting to give a precise definition of Music-AI, it is argued that all musical processes must make some reference to human behaviour, and so Music-AI is a central rather than a peripheral discipline for musical computing. However, it turns out that the goals of Music-AI as first expressed, the mimicking of human behaviour, are impossible to achieve in full, and that it is impossible, in principle, for computers to pass a musical version of the Turing test. In practice, however, computers are used for their non-human-like behaviour just as much as their human-like behaviour, so the real goal of Mu...

Artificial Intelligence and Music: Open Questions of Copyright Law and Engineering Praxis

Arts

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to music stretches back many decades, and presents numerous unique opportunities for a variety of uses, such as the recommendation of recorded music from massive commercial archives, or the (semi-)automated creation of music. Due to unparalleled access to music data and effective learning algorithms running on high-powered computational hardware, AI is now producing surprising outcomes in a domain fully entrenched in human creativity—not to mention a revenue source around the globe. These developments call for a close inspection of what is occurring, and consideration of how it is changing and can change our relationship with music for better and for worse. This article looks at AI applied to music from two perspectives: copyright law and engineering praxis. It grounds its discussion in the development and use of a specific application of AI in music creation, which raises further and unanticipated questions. Most of the questions coll...

Introductory Studies on Raga Multi-track Music Generation of Indian classical music using AI

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

Recently, there has been an exponential expansion in research focusing on AI-based music generation. Our indepth analysis of the arXiv dataset revealed a growing number of publications on this subject: over 273 AI music papers in the past two years, with 102 explicitly tackling AI music generation. However, one area that seems underrepresented is Indian traditional music. This study presents the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in creating Indian classical music, focusing on Raga-based music generation. We outline the two-stage music creation process, including the creative and technical aspects, and explore how AI can be integrated into these stages. We trained the models using the LSTM (Long Short-term Memory network) and Transformer models on the Dunya dataset, which includes almost 250 ragas played across 12 instruments. Further, the study proposes a new Raga Multi-Track Music Model (RMMM) model to generate multi-layered Raga-based music with enhanced authenticity and emotional resonance. Despite potential challenges, this research opens an exciting journey in AI-generated Indian classical music.