A proposal of an interactive music composition system using Gibbs sampler

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel method for generating a melody from a generative probabilistic model by using Gibbs sampler. Furthermore, users can modify the composed music by interacting with the generation process. This method enables users to create their favorable melodies. Recently, music composition using computer software is gathering attentions. Many people want to compose their original music. However, musical composition is still too difficult for beginners to obtain their favorable original music. Our system highly supports such people easy to create own music. We also evaluate the probabilistic music composition method by several experiments. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.