• DocumentCode
    3275766
  • Title

    A self-learning musical grammar, or ´associative memory of the second kind´

  • Author

    Kohonen, Teuvo

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo, Finland
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    0-0 1989
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Abstract
    A context-sensitive generative grammar that learns its production rules automatically from examples and optimizes the length of context for each individual production rule on the basis of conflicts occurring in the source material is described. The grammar has been applied to the generation of new melodic passages and counterpoint according to a certain style. This report describes some of the principal ideas and the work that was done. Music produced by this method generally sounds smooth, continuous, and pleasant.<>
  • Keywords
    content-addressable storage; context-sensitive grammars; learning systems; music; neural nets; associative memory; context-sensitive generative grammar; counterpoint; learning systems; melodic passages; optimization; production rules; self-learning musical grammar; Associative memories; Formal languages; Learning systems; Music; Neural networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks, 1989. IJCNN., International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC, USA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IJCNN.1989.118552
  • Filename
    118552