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  • any time that the flaming lips have stumbled upon a new little instrument, it's changed.

  • What we created.

  • The goal of the magenta team is to really explore the role of machine learning in creativity in the creative process, to enable people to express themselves in new ways.

  • Piano Genie is the great work of an intern.

  • We had Chris Donahue.

  • He designed an algorithm to be able to take piano playing and try to reproduce the piano, playing on Lee, hitting a couple buttons on a controller.

  • And it naturally comes out sounding a lot more like a professional piano player.

  • One of the things that we really focus on is how can we let people manipulates these algorithms?

  • It's been really exciting collaborating with the flaming lips because they're so creative in their approach to music that we just sort of showed them everything we have.

  • We're hoping to create a new experience where the audience can co create music with the band in real time using piano Jeannie.

  • So we made an intelligent musical instrument and melody creator out of fruit with Google.

  • When I played the fruit, I'm touching it, and I don't know exactly what it was gonna do every time Each one is announcing what it ISS Way worked with Google A I and they sent us the software called Piano Jeannie.

  • You hit a note, and it automatically plays music in the more that we play with it, the more it understands what it's playing against and who it's playing with.

  • So you play a different rhythm or a different note, and this goes on and on.

  • So it actually wrote a melody that we would not have written your kind of encouraging machine to do something kind of cool.

  • But if you're a banana, that's pretty good for a banana course.

  • The Flaming Lips are playing fruit that has a futuristic algorithm that's gonna help them create a song.

  • Of course they would.

  • Theo Balloons in the crowd and the three blond stage are basically two sides of the same coin.

  • They'll feed into the same radio network.

  • In other words, every time someone from the crowd interactive on our balloons, it creates music using the Piano Jeannie Network.

  • And then at some point, the more that they play with it, the more the algorithm is going to start to be encouraged or go into another dimension.

  • I think that's a great musical moment, redness on, especially for tonight's occasion.

  • Theo.

  • At the end of the day, that's what these algorithms and all these things they're doing, they're just sitting there helping and I want that.

  • That's a new beginning.

any time that the flaming lips have stumbled upon a new little instrument, it's changed.

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