This page is 🤖🎧 The Note-Catching Robot. It is one of the projects Brandon built and put online. The grown-up details are below, tap Grown-up mode to read them the normal way.
I teach a computer to listen to a song and write down every note it hears.
Imagine you hear your favorite song. Now imagine writing down every single note so a robot could play it back. That is hard for a person, but a computer can do it if you teach it how. That is my whole job right now.
Why? Once songs are written down this way, I can study how great musicians built them, make new music in the same style, and turn them into books and lessons.
These short clips are made only from the notes the robot caught. They sound like simple beeps on purpose, that is the robot "reading back" the music with no fancy instruments. Press play!
This is the tune the singer sang. The robot caught every note and wrote it down.
The low, rumbly notes that hold the song together.
A different song, a different melody. Same robot, listening close.
Hear how the bass walks up and down? The robot heard it too.
Boom = kick drum. Tap = snare. Tick = hi-hat. The robot sorted them apart.
A dreamy, floaty song. The robot still caught the melody.
The last song on the album. The robot finished this one a minute ago.
I am also building videos where a computer voice reads a tarot card "reading" while cards and chalk notes appear on a chalkboard. This one is about 18 minutes long. The voice is a clone built from a real voice, and a robot drew the chalkboard.
This is a work-in-progress draft. A check found 6 spots (out of 315) where the computer voice rambles or garbles, and those 6 are being re-recorded. For fun only. Not real fortune-telling.
Each song is split into its parts. Click any part to download the MIDI note-sheet for it.