Flow Machines Synthesis Paper

Musical examples for the paper “Assisted music creation with Flow Machines: towards new categories of new”, François Pachet, Pierre Roy, Benoit Carré, in “Handbook of Artificial Intelligence with AI”, Miranda, E. editor, Chapter 18, Springer, 2020.

A hyperlinked version of this paper is available on arxiv.

Here are some audio and links used in the paper:

The Boulez Blues

The lead sheet of the Boulez Blues

A rendering of the Boulez Blues, by Mark d’Inverno, piano; François Pachet, bass and Ed Jones, sax

Flow Harmonizer

Palindromes and Cancrizans

Automatic Comping

Original comping by Ray d’Inverno on Girl From Ipanema

Automatically generated comping on Giant Steps

draft of the paper

Song snippets “in the style of”

In the style of Bill Evans

In the style of Kurt Weil (Benoit Carré, lyrics and voice)

A song snippet in the style of Miles Davis

A Performance of the tune “Lunar”, the Vortex, London (Mark d’Inverno quartet)

The lead sheet version of Lunar

The song “Move on” commissioned by UNESCO

Film music experiments

A song in the style of Bill Evans (melody) and the Beatles (harmony), with a bias towards “Sad” pairs of chords