Method and apparatus for composing a song
AssigneeHelwett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorDavid Trevor Cliff
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Abstract
Songs are defined by a song template comprising at least one track comprising a sequence of measures and a plurality of audio samples allocated to the or each track. At least two songs are played to an audience, which responds indicating the popularity of each song. A less popular song is selected and a new song composed by automatically applying one or more rules to the template of the selected song.
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A method of automatically composing at least one musical song with a programmed processor comprising the steps of:
- defining and storing a set of songs which are each defined by a song template, the song template comprising at least one track comprising a sequence of measures and a plurality of audio samples allocated to the or each track,
- playing at least two of the songs to an audience;
- obtaining response signals from the audience indicating the popularity of each song with the audience;
- the programmed processor selecting at least one of the played songs in accordance with the popularity of that song with the audience;
- the programmed processor composing at least one song by automatically applying one or more rules to the template of the selected song, the rules modifying one or more characteristics of the template to produce a modified song,
- and the programmed processor replacing the less popular song with the composed modified song in the set of songs.
A song composition apparatus comprising:
- a memory containing a store of audio samples and a set of songs which are each defined by a song template, the song template comprising:
- at least one track comprising a sequence of measures and a plurality of audio samples allocated from the store of audio samples to the or each track,
- sound reproduction apparatus adapted to play at least two of the set of songs to an audience,
- one or more monitoring devices adapted to monitor the response of the audience to the played songs to provide crowd reaction signals representative of the popularity of each played song with the audience;
- a processor programmed to select on the basis of the crowd reaction signals at least one of the played songs which is less popular than at least one other played song, to compose at least one modified song by applying one or more rules to the template of the less popular song, the rules modifying one or more characteristics of the template to produce a modified song, and to replace the less popular song in the set with the composed modified song.
A data carrier having stored thereon a composed song, wherein said composed song comprises the result of the selection of a song played to an audience and determined on the basis of the crowd reaction signals to be less popular than at least one other played song, the composition of a modified song by applying one or more rules to a template of the less popular song, the template comprising at least one track comprising a sequence of measures and a plurality of audio samples allocated to the or each track and the rules modifying one or more characteristics of the template to produce a modified song, and the provision of the modified song as the composed song.
A data carrier adapted to compose a song in response to user feedback, the programmed processor having access to a memory containing a store of audio samples and a set of songs which are each defined by a song template, the song template comprising at least one track comprising a sequence of measures and a plurality of audio samples allocated from the store of audio samples to the or each track,
- whereby the programmed processor is adapted to:
- select on the basis of crowd reaction signals representative of popularity of a song with at least a part of an audience at least one played song from a plurality of songs played to the audience which is less popular than at least one other played song;
- compose at least one modified song by applying one or more rules to the template of the less popular song, the rules modifying one or more characteristics of the template to produce a modified song;
- replace the less popular song in the set of songs with the composed modified song.
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