2. EMI: Experiments in Musical Intelligence One man’s dream to create new works from the composers who are decomposing

3. What is EMI? Written by David Cope Originally a fix for “composer’s block” Became a tool for composing entire works Writes works that emulate styles of various composers

4. Central Challenges Creating a grammar that holds all of the basic rules for coherent music Using previous works to bring life into the music Passing off new works as written by the “original” composer

5. Music as seen by EMI

6. Implementation of EMI Parses existing musical examples into a complex catalog of lexicons Augmented Transition Networks provide a way of linking lexicons of words into meaningful musical sentences

7. SPEAC Identifiers Statement - declaration of material Preparation - introductory gesture Extension - continuance of material or ideas Antecedent - active function Consequent – conclusive, paired with antecedent

8. SPEAC Analysis of Bach Chorale

9. Nested Musical Phrases Musical phrase analysis on multiple levels

10. Extracting the Essence Finding a composer’s signature and using it in the new works Two Mozart piano sonata excerpts:

11. Success of EMI Styles are always recognizable “EMI’s Mozart is better than 99 percent of non-Mozart classical music.” - Cope Performers can often feel the depth, richness, and emotion in EMI’s works Tested before experts at Eastman Live performance of Mozart’s 42nd

12. The End – Any Questions?