Emily Howell

Emily Howell is a computer program created by UC Santa Cruz professor of music David Cope.^[1] Emily Howell is an interactive interface that "hears" feedback from listeners, and builds its own musical compositions from a source database, derived from a previous composing program called Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI).^[2] Cope attempts to “teach” the program by providing feedback so that it can cultivate its own "personal" style.^[1] The software appears to be based on latent semantic analysis.^[3]

Emily Howell’s first album^[4] was released in February 2009 by Centaur Records (CRC 3023). Titled From Darkness, Light, this album contains her Opus 1, Opus 2, and Opus 3 compositions for chamber orchestra and multiple pianos. Her second album Breathless was released in December 2012 by Centaur Records (CRC 3255).^[5]

See also

• List of music software
• Music and artificial intelligence
• Computer music

References

1. Cheng, Jacqui. "Virtual Composer Makes Beautiful Music and Stirs Controversy". Ars Technica.
2. David Cope (1987), "Experiments in Music Intelligence." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, San Francisco: Computer Music Assn.
3. Wiggins, G. A. (14 December 2007). "Computer Models of Musical Creativity: A Review of Computer Models of Musical Creativity by David Cope" (PDF). Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23 (1): 109–116. doi:10.1093/llc/fqm025.
4. http://www.centaurrecords.com/store/emily-howell-from-darkness-light-music-composed-by-a-computer-program-designed-by-david-cope-from-darkness-light.html
5. http://www.centaurrecords.com/store/emily-howell-breathless-silver-blood.html

• Computer Models of Musical Creativity, MIT Press (December 16, 2005), ISBN 0262033380

External links

• http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/experiments.htm
• http://www.news.com.au/national/meet-emily-howell-classical-musics-virtual-composer/story-e6frfkp9-1225789839139
• http://singularityhub.com/tag/emily-howell/