Beethoven's Tenth with artificial intelligence
No one has ever attempted to complete Beethoven's sketches for a tenth symphony. A team of international music and AI experts and scientists from the Beethoven-Haus Bonn are now attempting to do so.
Using artificial intelligence methods, a possible version of the symphony was created from Beethoven's existing musical sketches. To do this, the available data from Beethoven - symphonies, music sketches and scores - first had to be analyzed and prepared in a machine-readable format. The appropriate machine learning method was then selected and its algorithms adapted to the task. Language processing algorithms were used.
Under the direction of Matthias Röder from the Karajan Institute and The Mindshift agency, the team consisted of musicologist and Beethoven expert Robert Levin, Ahmed Elgammal (AI expert at Rutgers University), Mark Gotham (composition theorist at Cornell University), Walter Werzowa (composer) and Christine Siegert (Head of Research at the Beethoven-Haus). The work is to be performed by the Bonn Beethoven Orchestra in April 2020.
