Programmatic Music Generator

Quickstart

This project uses Python 3.11. Using an older version may result in an error during dependency installation having to do with Cargo, the package manager for Rust.

1. Run pip install -r requirements.txt.
2. Go to the src/synthetic_music_generation/ directory. e.g. cd src/synthetic_music_generation
3. Run python generate.py, or run src/synthetic_music_generation/generate.py from your IDE of choice.

This program will generate and play a unique piece for you. Make sure your audio is enabled. Try running it multiple times to see the different kinds of results you may hear.

Datasets

If you want to generate a synthetic pieces in bulk, such as for a dataset, refer to the generate_dataset(<folder>, <num_files>) function defined in src/synthetic_music_generation/dataset.py.

There are additional rough functions and code excerpts in src/data_processing/create_dict.py for generating many 'epochs' worth of synthetic data, preprocessing it, and pickling it into archive files that are faster to load.

Other

Check out output/synthetic_data/interesting_synthetic_examples for a few cool example pieces generated using this project.