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This is not a piano is a suite of pieces for sampled piano I wrote (or generated) from small snippets of text data. Learning a variable-order Markov chain from the properties of the snippets, I added variation through layering and manipulating certain aspects of the sound in an improvisational process, using my live coding environment Mégra.
The results have a slight reminiscence of, though no real connection to, some piano pieces by Eric Satie. I’ve always been drawn to the piano as an instrument, as apart from its pleasant sound it also lends itself well to reflect structural properties of music.
In the end, it’s more about the interaction and dialog with the algorithm rather than trying to beat benchmarks.