Generating Musical Sequences with a Given Emotion

Abstract

This article presents the process of building a system generating music content of a specified emotion. As the emotion labels, four basic emotions: happy, angry, sad, relaxed, which correspond to the four quarters of Russell’s model, were used. Conditional variational autoencoder using a recurrent neural network for sequence processing was used as a generative model. The obtained results in the form of the generated music examples with a specific emotion are convincing in their structure and sound. The generated examples were evaluated through comparison with the training set.