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Sch​ö​nberg's Hidden Dodekaeder

by Rolf Bader

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Du mußt verstehen, aus Eins mach Zehn 03:27
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Und Zwei laß gehn 01:20
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Und Drei mach gleich 02:10
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These AI-generated pieces are composed strictly following the rules of dodecaphony, or 12-tone music, as proposed by Arnold Schönberg. A Hidden Markov Model was used and implemented as computer code generating musical scores. The algorithm allows deciding on the series, the row of the 12 tones following each other. Other parameters were also chosen by hand, such as whether the series will be played as melody or if chords are allowed. A distribution of the series to several instruments is possible but not used in the present recordings.
As a computer also generates sound, arbitrary complex compositions, tempos, and arrangements can be played. Varying these parameters is highly interesting to see what kind of sounds are possible while still staying strictly in the 12-tone realm. An interesting such example is the music of Moondog. He composed strictly using the laws of polyphony, while his music does not sound Renaissance or Barock at all.
At the present stage of AI, the public’s interest is mainly focused on topics of creativity. Is AI as creative as humans? Therefore, most pieces are judged in terms of the Turing test. Would one be able to tell a real composer's piece from an AI one? This seems to be common to musical inventions. When the first synthesizers were introduced, like the Sphärophon of Jörg Mager or the Telharmonium of Thaddeus Cahill, people wanted to hear the sound of traditional musical instruments. When FM Synthesis was introduced in the 70th and 80th, the algorithm first needed to show if a guitar, violin, or piano sounds could be produced with it. When Physical Modeling algorithms came up in the 90th, it was the same thing. Still, most of these new inventions only became popular and attracted the attention of a wider public when new sounds were created, so when a ‘misuse of gear’ took place.
Therefore, it could very well be that AI music will only be accepted and used by musicians to a wider extent when sounds are created that are not known from previous synthesis methods. Time will tell.

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released March 29, 2024

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Rolf Bader Hamburg, Germany

Rolf Bader is a guitarist, keyboarder, singer, composer, acoustician, ethnomusicologist, and music psychologist. Currently he is Professor at the Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg, Germany. Starting with Rock, Jazz, Classical, street and orchestra music, he turned to free improvisation, experimental and electronic music over the last decades. ... more

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