MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies

May 9, 2008 lecture by Dan Morris for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547).

MySong is a system that automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody. A user with no musical experience can create a song with instrumental accompaniment just by singing into a microphone, and can experiment with different styles and chord patterns using interactions designed to be intuitive to non-musicians. Dan Morris describes how MySong works, discusses results from a recent usability study, and shows lots of audio examples to demonstrate that non-musicians are in fact able to use this system as a powerful creative tool.

CS 547 | Human-Computer Interaction Seminar:
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
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[agapitoflores001]

Technology can really make music more fantastic. Great! I love music!

[cardboardgiraffe29]

i was surprised a Microsoft employee mentioned Google! 

[BenderOfMusic]

Free download of MySong is available as SongSmith

Free for 6 hours of actural uses

[PuccaSim]

where can i get it?

[karitheninja]

I wish I had this... It would really help me with my vocaloid projects... I've been afraid of doing original songs because I don't know how to make good backup instruments...

[jeffreychen24]

hahah my knowledge of music theory has been utterly pwned by a computer