This piece employs Magenta's Music VAE project to interpolate between two famous tunes: from Chopin's Nocturne in B-flat minor to Paul Desmond's Take Five. Vocal embellishments were added. The rubato and dynamics on the piano were created using Max/MSP.

Dichotomy

DeepDelta Sample Output 1

DeepDelta Sample Output 2

DeepDelta Sample Output 3

Modern Jazz Quartet - Django (middle section)

Model was trained on MuseData. It encodes music as intervals rather than pitches.

Fitting Music: Relatively Classical

Model was trained on JSB Chorales dataset. Unlike the second movement, it uses absolute pitch for encoding.

Fitting Music: Absolutely Bach

Divar

Imagine an interstellar heap of gas and dust so immense that it gives birth to new stars. The Eagle Nebula is one such formation seven thousand light-years away from earth. In 1995, NASA’s Hubble telescope captured an area of this nebula, a breathtaking image that was named Pillars of Creation. The larger heap of dust visible in this image is four light-years in length. It has been hypothesized that the pillars were already destroyed about 6000 years ago by a supernova. Of course, due to the limited speed of light, what we see of the Pillars of Creation is always 7000 years in the past. Until the light from its destruction reaches us in about a millennium, we shall observe and be amazed by the majestic sight of this astronomical glory which may no longer exist. This is the true inspiration.

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