1st Edition
The AI Music Problem Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity
By Christopher W. White
Copyright 2025
198 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Music poses unique and complex challenges for artificial intelligence, even as 21st-century AI grows ever more adept at generating compelling content. The AI Music Problem: Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity probes the challenges behind AI-generated music, with an investigation that straddles the technical, the musical, and the aesthetic. Bringing together the perspectives... Read more
1. The Problems Facing Musical Artificial Intelligence
2. History, Engineering, and Motivations Behind Generative Musical AI
3. Collecting Examples for Musical Datasets
4. Representing Music to Artificial Intelligence
5. Musical Structure is Hard to Learn
6. Interpreting Musical Artificial Intelligence
Biography
Christopher W. White is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
