Former Project on Creativity
Continuator
The Continuator is a usable musical instrument combining techniques from interactive and automatic learning systems. François Pachet, Director, Sony CSL Paris, started experimenting with this software back in 2001 with musicians and children. It learns and interactively plays with a user in the user’s style. It is based on a Markov model of musical styles augmented to account for efficient real time learning of musical styles and to arbitrary external bias.