Category: Music

Some fine rhythmic chill-out music

Here’s a playlist of songs on Youtube with a really good rhythmic feel, good for road trips or just chilling out anywhere. Listed below with link to youtube.

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Rythmic Chill-out playlist – sorted by date added: Continue reading Some fine rhythmic chill-out music

Visualizing song and choreography structure

Visualizing song and choreography structure. This song and this choreography are nicely structured to illustrate a point. I’m experimenting with the idea of combining two views of a performance – a dance video side by side with a musicians view of song structure. I’m using Garage Band, an app for analyzing and composing music, to show a running view of the song’s beats and measures and their grouping as song sections. So this video is a screen capture showing both musical and dance views running simultaneously. Continue reading Visualizing song and choreography structure

Machine learned and generated choreography

Here is an interesting application of deep learning to produce generated dance moves, trained on raw motion capture data from a human dancer. After learning the patterns of dance moves, the software uses the learned patterns to generate novel choreographic material, sequences of anatomically feasible movements with elements of the dance style observed during training. The dance sequence seems to show some higher level compositional cohesion, more than just a random sequence of moves. This is just a prototype, but you can see the obvious potential this has for composing and communicating choreography.

More information: http://peltarion.com/creative-ai