![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwxKXp3yaZsP8DpmLrrjIW34Uhp6WBAbQ35TD_cjSNyH2lkPT0jeAdHg7wbVVncTL3ybgszrvTmQYfrDJ34b4d_K77Uy-BP-87ibrWD8oWZP9ffNG42gBFLzvIYFr70oA-OOGycCp1OmViGkJg5j-xjDce3mMu2xSj51uv_qRqScJa0FjvVvDp2wz_Q/s320/Schermafbeelding%202022-09-03%20om%2021.30.20.png)
Classical composer Igor Stravinsky once said: “I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it”. A perfect expression of how deeply human, how deeply emotional music is. What should a computer, however clever, then be doing in the field of art that most directly reaches into the human soul? The answer is: surprisingly much.
Roughly speaking, artificial intelligence can contribute to analysing music and to creating music. Thanks to machine learning, a subdiscipline of AI, both fields have made great progress over the last decade.
For this article I interviewed Emilia Gomez and GĂ©rard Assayag.