Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Papers (17:30, from left to right):
arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0585.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1709.01620.pdf

Illiac Suite (21:41):
youtube.com/watch?v=QyqiSbbwHIs

Musical Turing Test (22:46):
youtube.com/watch?v=ynPWOMzossI

Kantor Album (26:20):
melodrive.bandcamp.com/album/kantor-vr-the-soundtrack

MusicVAE (27:58):
youtube.com/watch?v=G5JT16flZwM

Bloom: 10 Worlds (40:33):
youtube.com/watch?v=kOTPjh6oA84

Robot Jazz Improv (43:37):
youtube.com/watch?v=tKdJ4-TnlhY

N-Synth (45:03):
youtube.com/watch?v=0fjopD87pyw

The Sound of AI Accelerator (49:49):
thesoundofai.com/accelerator.html
thesoundofaiosr.github.io/Paper_Companion

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0:00 Intro
0:44 About Valerio
1:22 Overview
2:45 Well-defined (objective) problems
6:04 Ill-defined (subjective) problems
8:24 Challenges in generative music
12:07 Classifying generative music
17:30 Timeline for generative music
36:29 Current challenges
39:02 Impact of generative music
49:14 Sound of AI project
51:43 Q&A
1:02:24 Outro

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