235: Imagine That, Suckers! (Repeat)

Designneural network (unspecified model)

Robin Sloan trained a neural network on existing music to generate new audio sounds for the audiobook of his novel Sourdough, creating a specific auditory effect for a fictional music style described in the book.

“I took some of the music, the real music that had inspired those descriptions, fed it into a neural network, had it kind of learn the patterns, the shapes of those sounds, and then generate some new sound of its own … I uh, I took a bunch of the output and I zipped it up and sent it off to an unsuspecting audiobook producer who then uh, found ways to kind of thread it through the uh, the audiobook.”