Polyphemus

This web app allows you to generate music with Polyphemus, a polyphonic multitrack symbolic music generator.

The model generates 2 bars of 4/4 multi-instrumental music. The instruments are 4: drums, bass, piano and strings.

The editable 4x32 grid allows you to specify which of the 4 instruments must be activated in the 32 timesteps that constitute a bar. The model then generates music by following the directives for each of the 2 bars.

Quick Instructions

  1. Edit the Grid: Activate or deactivate the cells in the grid with the left click. Click and drag to activate or deactivate multiple cells. Try not to go too crazy with the editing, as the model works better with grids that resemble real ones.
  2. Generate Music With the Model: Click on the "Generate" button and wait for the model to generate music.
  3. Play the Music: After you click play, the music will be played and visualized through a pianoroll. During play, the grid will continuously highlight the current timestep in the sequence.
  4. Repeat: You may end up liking a particular piece of generated music. You can then experiment with it by trying different instrument activations while keeping the same musical content. If you want to keep the same musical content of the last generated sequence, just activate the "Keep Style" checkbox before generation.
Drums
Bass
Piano
Strings