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Automated music composition and generation system for spotting digital media objects and event markers using emotion-type, style-type, timing-type and accent-type musical experience descriptors that characterize the digital music to be automatically composed and generated by the system

  • US 10,467,998 B2
  • Filed: 04/17/2017
  • Issued: 11/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An automated music composition and generation system for scoring a selected media object or event marker, with one or more custom pieces of digital music, by spotting the selected media object or event marker with musical experience descriptors selected and applied to the selected media object or event marker by the system user during a scoring process, and using said selected musical experience descriptors to drive an automated music composition and generation engine to automatically compose and generate the one or more custom pieces of digital music, said automated music composition and generation system comprising:

  • an automated music composition and generation engine configured for receiving, as inputs, musical experience descriptors being selected by a system user while spotting a selected media object or event marker during a scoring process, and producing, as output, one or more custom pieces of digital music automatically composed and generated by said automated music composition and generation engine based on said selected musical experience descriptors supplied to said automated music composition and generation engine; and

    a system user interface, operably connected to said automated music composition and generation engine, and configured for (i) selecting a media object or event marker to be scored by the system user with custom pieces of digital music automatically composed and generated by said automated music composition and generation engine, (ii) selecting said musical experience descriptors from a group consisting of emotion-type musical experience descriptors, style-type musical experience descriptors, timing-type musical experience descriptors, and accent-type musical experience descriptors, and (iii) applying the selected musical experience descriptors to said selected media object or event marker, and providing said selected and applied musical experience descriptors to said automated music composition and generation engine for use in automatically composing and generating custom pieces of digital music characterized by said selected musical experience descriptors, and for scoring said selected media object or event marker to produce a musically-scored media object or event marker;

    wherein after the system user selects a media object or event marker during spotting, the system user selects and applies one or more of said musical experience descriptors to said selected media object or event marker;

    wherein said musical experience descriptors specify what, when and how musical events occur in the custom pieces of digital music;

    wherein said automated music composition and generation engine automatically generates custom pieces of digital music for scoring the selected media object or event marker, based on and using said musical experience descriptors (i) selected by the system user from said system user interface, (ii) applied to the selected media object or event marker during spotting, and (iii) provided to said automated music composition and generation engine; and

    wherein said automated music composition and generation engine, once initiated by the system user, automatically transforms said selected musical experience descriptors into a set of music-theoretic system operating parameters, which are used by said automated music composition and generation engine to automatically compose and generate said custom pieces of digital music for scoring said selected media object or event marker.

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