Abstract

The ability to create has long been heralded as the gift which distinguishes humanity from their cold, mechanical creations. But not for long: maturing artificial neural network technology has allowed us to create analogues of basic human perception and response with promising results. Building upon recent concepts in neural audio processing, we present Korsak Ovbot, a music-generation program which employs an iterative process to produce original music in a jazz-like style. We claim that this methodology mimics the human creative process, with the hope that, through proper development, artificial systems may one day produce art like humans do.