That is a very interesting problem. I hope you've seen this video
about music theory with Charlie Gillingham?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGfDjwSORaw
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Jos Theelen <[email protected]> wrote:
> That probably means, they used a scalarencoder. But their problem was
> different than mine. They had to remember the notes and to learn which note
> came after which other note. For me the combination of melody and chords
> have to sound "nice". Somehow a system has too learn or remember that.
>
> greetings: Jos Theelen
>
>
> On 2015-10-09 17:19, Matthew Taylor wrote:
>>
>> They actually didn't create a NoteEncoder (the codebase was much less
>> extensible 2.5 years ago). They wrote a preprocessing script that
>> turned the MIDI song file into a scalar input stream. I don't remember the
>> details, and their codebase is lost now. But I do remember that they
>> needed to remove the "rests" from the input.
>>
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>> Matt Taylor
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>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Jos Theelen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, I know it and looked at it. I wondered how they made a NoteEncoder,
>>> I
>>> am still struggling with that. Nupic says that notes that are "close" to
>>> each other should have the most overlapping bits. But what is "close" in
>>> music?
>>>
>>> 1) a scalarencoder, where the number of the note is encoded. In this case
>>> "close" means almost the same frequency.
>>> 2) 2 scalarencoders, one for the note and a different one for the octave.
>>> This because a note sounds almost the same as that same note an octave
>>> lower
>>> or an octave higher.
>>> 3) a typical noteencoder and a scalarencoder for the octave. The
>>> noteencoder
>>> should take the notes in the following cyclical order:
>>> C,G,D,A,E,.....Es,Bes,F,C, each a quint apart. In this case notes that
>>> are
>>> close together sound better together. C-G sounds better together than
>>> C-Cis
>>>
>>> Probably I should make all 3 encoders, just to test.
>>>
>>> greetings: Jos Theelen
>>>
>>> On 2015-10-08 15:14, Marek Otahal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jos,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Jos Theelen <[email protected]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      I am working on a model, that reads melodies and chords from
>>>>      midifiles, mainly chorales from JS Bach. When the model is given a
>>>>      new melody without chords, it should find the chords, that sound
>>>>      correct, conform what it learned from the midifiles.
>>>>
>>>> Nice, I love classical music and music related examples :)
>>>> You probably know, but just in case: check out nupic.audio project and a
>>>> former hackathon submission that composed song on trained MIDI music.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      greetings: Jos Theelen
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