This should be interesting. We’re getting a primer on this technology in a few days that MS Researcher Dan Morris has been working on along with his project group, called MySong.
LINK: http://research.microsoft.com/users/dan/mysong/
MySong is a system that automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody. A user with no musical experience can create a song with instrumental accompaniment just by singing into a microphone, and can experiment with different styles and chord patterns using interactions designed to be intuitive to non-musicians. The goal of MySong is to let people with no training in chords or harmonization get a taste of songwriting.
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