Teachable/trainable artificially intelligent music bot
A teachable/trainable artificially intelligent music bot fundamentally inspired by how the new wave band Duran Duran composes music. This program utilizes many algorithmic/AI techniques/processes, including machine learning; which allow you to teach/train it to compose music which you prefer... and the technique which is the foundation of the design of DuranDuranbot, which was directly inspired by how Duran Duran writes music........
The project is composed of two layers. The first layer is an artificial intelligence engine, partwriter, that writes music based on some heuristic. The second layer is the layer that defines the heuristic. The definition of this heuristic defines the type of music that partwriter will create.
Currently (December 2012), the deepest layer is more or less complete. The author is now writing second layers of interest, namely species counterpoint heuristics according to Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum.