Radio Taiwan International
Date: 22 May, 2019
By: John Van Trieste
A new orchestra in Taiwan is centered on a music composing software program, bringing its creations to life on real instruments.
There has been much talk about artificial intelligence or AI in Taiwan over the past few years. There are a great many ideas about how AI will change the world, but so far, little thought has been given to the impact AI technology will have on the arts.
Now though, a group of Taiwanese professors has gotten together for a project that’s testing AI’s creative capacity one composition at a time.
At National Tsing Hua University a group of musicians has come together for a bold experiment. They are part of a new orchestra attempting something that hasn’t been tried in Taiwan before.
This is Taiwan’s first “artificial intelligence band”, a band centered around a music-making software program developed by a team of the university’s professors.
The program can play music by itself or accompany human musicians. But plenty of other programs can already do that. [FULL STORY]
