Make art (not fake news), this is the motto of MelodyBot3456, a Twitter composer bot that posts its new jams every hour on the social network. The completely automated process randomly chooses instrument, tuning and tempo to generate a random song, generating this new “talent” in the robotic music scene.

The instruments are all Midi tracks, used in online sheet music programs like Guitar Pro, and the songs, for the most part, make no sense at all. Most of the sound progressions, interruptions and note fitting do not follow the logic of scales normally used in human music.

Or maybe that's just me not understanding the pioneering nature of this music bot. You can see if you can appreciate the songs from the Twitter music composer bot below:

https://twitter.com/MelodyBot3456/status/1370347767638331398?s=20

Most of the results are somewhere between weird and funny, like the one above, which sounds like a robot that watched a thousand hours of Jethro Tull solos. Others, like the one below, sound like a computer trying to remember the opening of Seinfeld off the top of its head. Just listen:

https://twitter.com/MelodyBot3456/status/1370287396030324736?s=20

Twitter's music composer bot isn't the only one, as some YouTube channels also have videos and lyrics generated by machine learning, like this one from Nickelback, from Nirvana or AC/DC. Anyway, it's good to see artificial intelligence being used for positive purposes (although useless), since the reputation of these scripts is usually quite bad. Well, besides Melody Bot, there are many other bots out there being used to replicate fake news or yet, automate the sale of sensitive data.

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