ABSTRACT
hpDJ: A COMPUTERISED DANCE-MUSIC DISC-JOCKEY
Dr. Dave Cliff,
Senior Research Scientist, Digital Media Systems, Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories, Bristol
hpDJ is a computer system that does what a dance-music DJ does: like a
bedroom DJ, it can sequence a set of tunes and beat-match for seamless
cross-fading between tracks; like a nightclub DJ, it can react dynamically
to the responses of the crowd; and like a studio artiste DJ it can make its
own original new dance-music compositions using looped samples and a memory
of what excited the crowd in the past. The current prototype runs on a
standard PC. This talk is non-technical, and doesn't assume any prior
knowledge about either dance-music DJ'ing or about the signal processing,
artificial intelligence, and evolutionary computation techniques that
underlie the operation of hpDJ.
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