An artificially intelligent ringtone composer

This wonderful find comes from the excellent Red Ferret Journal, an artificially intelligent ringtone composer!

"Heresy Al Composer can create unlimited new polyphonic ringtones in a variety of styles - no musical knowledge required!' Five styles (including funk, heavy rock and ballad) for Series 60 phones.

'Heresy uses AI composition techniques to generate a tune in the selected style from a random number or from a phone number.

It then applies further composition techniques to create bass, drums, strings, piano and organ tracks that fit with the original tune. Heresy is theretically [sic] capable of generating up to 4 billion squared compositions (9223372036854775808 !!) in each style, all of which will sound musically 'correct'."

emily | 5:22 PM | News, Buzz |
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