The Google Logo Today Lets You Compose Music in the Style of Bach

[MineralMan]

Go put in some notes and let Google create a bach-style harmony. The system lets you store your creation for posterity, too!

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[GemDigger]

1. I know nothing about music and just put stuff willy nilly and my gosh

they came up with something amazing.

[MineralMan]

2. I know. It's pretty amazing, really.

[MineralMan]

3. By the way, explore the interface on that.

There are lots of things you can do that aren't immediately apparent.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Wow, I threw some clunker notes in, then added additional ones, and each time

that AI thingy cleaned it up like a pro.

I'd like to try it was jazz, but I suspect it would need a much more robust machine

[MineralMan]

6. You can share what you came up with, too.

Just click the share symbol and copy the link and paste it.

[Brother Buzz]

7. LOL, after listening to yours, I'm not posting mine

And She Who Must be Obeyed just told me not giving up my day job.

[MineralMan]

5. Here's one I did. You can share yours by clicking the share icon.

https://g.co/doodle/6ets5c

[sdfernando]

8. Quite cool

Here is my composition....key of Db

https://g.co/doodle/vsc86u

[MineralMan]

10. I hit the reharmonize recycle button. Here's what it did

to your tune after that. No dissonance.

https://g.co/doodle/4c2zyy

[sdfernando]

12. I had re-harmonized my tune a few times to get the dissonance

....I like dissonance so long as it resolves somewhere.

[cilla4progress]

9. Amazing. AI not so bad, I guess. ;)

Mine sucked, however. Won't be sharing.

[sakabatou]

11. Too bad it's only in C-major

[MineralMan]

13. Click the Star button. You'll get a wheel that lets you change keys.

You can select what you want. There are lots of little tricks you can play with that interface. Explore. Right clicking lets you input 16th notes. I haven't figured out how to make half notes or do syncopation yet. I want some triplets, too.

I think there are more tricks available.

What might be fun is to come up with a multi-person composition, with each person doing four bars. That would take some time, though, and you'd have to save the output as midi files and combine them to create a longer composition.

[sakabatou]

16. Got it

[sdfernando]

14. You can change the key....

Click on the white star on the right and a key wheel will appear in the center of the board. You can use it to change the key....thats how I got my tune into Db.

[klook]

15. Very cool.

Audio keeps crapping out -- their servers are probably getting killed. Reloading the page fixes it, but you lose your "composition."