Sheet-music generation was already solved in 2019 by Google Magenta's Coconet
felpix_ · x · 2026-09-07
- Responding to claims that LLMs can't read sheet music, felpix argues the only reason LLMs aren't fed scores is economics: autoregressive sheet-music generation was already done well in 2019.
- Coconet, built by Google Magenta for the first AI-powered Bach Doodle, trained on 306 Bach chorales by randomly erasing notes and learning to restore them — generating polyphony in any order and supporting harmonization, rewriting, and composing from scratch.
Related event: Coconet Generated Bach-Style Scores Back in 2019(2 posts)→
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