Manchester Museum of Science & Industry, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester M3 4FP, UK
29.04.2010 (15.40)
Eduardo Coutinho

National Gas Engine (1976.22.1): This gas engine was made in Ashton-under-Lyne by the National Gas and Oil Company in around 1900. After their introduction in 1867, gas engines like this were the main source of power for smaller industries. For seventy years, this cheap source of power was in common use in workshops, sawmills and printing and food businesses (http://emu.msim.org.uk/htmlmn/collections/online/browsethemes/display.php?irn=642)

Recording of a Gas Engine @ Manchester Museum of Science & Industry (UK)

These tracks were composed using a computer model (Deep Recurrent Music Writer) described in: Sabathé, R., Coutinho, E., & Schuller, B. (2017,). Deep recurrent music writer: Memory-enhanced variational autoencoder-based musical score composition and an objective measure. In 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 3467-3474). IEEE.

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