This is going to be a unique post as I get to post it on both my professional and musical blog. This summer I decided to experiment with Artificial Intelligence and apply it to musical improvisation. Artificial Intelligence is the buzzword everyone seems to use these days – some with awe, some with curiosity, some…
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My Musical Experiments with Artificial Intelligence – Part 2
Published Material on AI and Neural Networks Theoretical foundation of Artificial Neural Networks is nothing new. As a discipline, theoretical framework of AI has been existence in Computer Science since 1960s. However, recent scaling in compute power enables these frameworks to be put in practice to produce something meaningful. cars.mit.edu Anyone who wants to learn…
My Musical Experiments with Artificial Intelligence – Part 3
Tabla Basics Tabla is a north Indian percussion instrument. It comprises of two drums played together. The smaller drum produces various main sounds while the bigger drum produces accents and modulations. Tabla is a unique percussion instrument and can produce extremely rich and advanced percussion improvisations. This is so because like human languages, Tabla has…
My Musical Experiments with Artificial Intelligence – Part 4
Improvisation on tabla strikes a delicate balance between the two things – Artistic improvisation within a rhythmic cycle itself. For example, within Teentaal, the tabla player is free to play variations as they sound aesthetically pleasing Taking influences – mostly rhythmic – from the lead musician and producing them on the tabla A good tabla…
Social Influence Marketing – Building Blocks
Famous marketing guru Peter Drucker once said – “Businesses Exist to Create Customers.” While that paradigm has been true for generations, today even he may agree if we say – “Businesses Exist to Create Customers… Who Create Customers”. In his book – Social Physics, How Good Idea Spread – Lessons from A New Science –…
Data Science Driven Segmentation
According to wikipedia, segmentation is a marketing strategy which involves dividing a broad target market into subsets of consumers, businesses, or countries who have, or are perceived to have, common needs, interests, and priorities, and then designing and implementing strategies to target them. Segmentation allows companies to better target marketing messages (emails, ads) and interventions…