🎹 "Happy Prancing", Rachmaninoff-ish, 2020 [AI] [Original Piano Composition] 🎵
Channel: Dirk Tomandl
Date: 2020-02-29

Here is a musically improved and extended version of the composition including a playable score:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2KFdDIr_k&list=PLbG6g-0Kt-BdgBGG9DjJ95cy-DbZ3-Wyp

Please enjoy this original piano composition in beautiful late romantic-era style inspired by Sergei Rachmaninoff with a few hints of Frederic Chopin! It is a short, happy little piece, virtuous and expressive. I imagined a playful show-off who wants to impress - in a gentle, fun way.

This is the playlist where all of my AI co-composed pieces are compiled: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbG6g-0Kt-BdgBGG9DjJ95cy-DbZ3-Wyp

I used the Artificial Intelligence software Musenet as compositional idea generator to create this piece. How to compose with Musenet? The video "How to use AI to compose Classical Music" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODasvwQFHKs&list=PLbG6g-0Kt-BdgBGG9DjJ95cy-DbZ3-Wyp) as well as the playlist itself have detailed descriptions about the process.

This has been one of my first compositions using Musenet. More recent compositions are more complex and musically diverse. I will post more compositions on this channel.

This has been one of my first compositions using Musenet. More recent compositions are more complex and musically diverse. I will post more compositions on this channel.

For this piece, I used mostly Rachmaninoff style but Musenet got stuck in the initial theme. By switching several times to Chopin style for a few seconds of music, I managed to guide Musenet towards more musical variation and a nice ending.

I am absolutely amazed how far Artificial Intelligence has come and its ability to help composing interesting music. We are witnessing the dawn of a new era. I consider Musenet as my composing buddy that provides a never-ending fountain of ideas - without attitude ;-)

Another interesting insight is that Musenet creates both the music as well as its interpretation simultaneously. The advantage is that its compositions sound and feel as if they were played by a human performer. The downside is that these "humanized", imprecise Midi files are a nightmare for notation software (see below).

Production:
After the composition was finished, I exported the music as Midi file. This file was imported into Reaper (https://www.reaper.fm/) in order to fix bugs and some mild editing. For the Piano sound I used the wonderful PianoTeq VST (https://www.modartt.com/pianoteq ; Steinway D). I used a free screen recorder (https://www.flashbackrecorder.com/express/) to record a video of the performance in Reaper.
The score was more tricky since the Midi file is heavily humanized. None of the available Notation tools or DAWs that were available to me are capable of properly interpreting these files. Finally, I came across ScoreCloud (https://scorecloud.com/) that has a clever algorithm that quantizes music better than other tools. The ScoreCloud processed Midi file was then imported into Dorico (https://new.steinberg.net/dorico/) to render the score. I recorded the score video separately.
With PowerDirector (https://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-video-editing-software/) both videos were mounted together and rendered.

Please note: The (ugly) score here is for illustration purposes only. A revised and musically expanded version of the piece can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2KFdDIr_k&list=PLbG6g-0Kt-BdgBGG9DjJ95cy-DbZ3-Wyp
including a downloadable score (for free!).

Now: Close your eyes, open your mind, imagine listening to a piano player improvising in late romantic-era style with a few hints of Rachmaninoff and a tiny bit of Chopin.

Enjoy and let me know ✍️ what you think in the comments below!
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