MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies

Lecture Description

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.

Course Description

Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design) is a Stanford University course that features weekly speakers on topics related to human-computer interaction design. The seminar is organized by the Stanford HCI Group, which works across disciplines to understand the intersection between humans and computers.

Course Index

1. Designing Interactions that Combine Pen, Paper, and PC
2. Accountability of Presence: Location Tracking Beyond Privacy
3. Augmented Social Cognition
4. Designing a Health Care Interface
5. Toward Adaptive Services for Personal Archiving
6. Data Modeling and Conceptual Sketching in the Design Process
7. ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language
8. Context Aware Computing: Understanding Human Intention
9. Adaptive Interaction Techniques for Sharing Design Resources
10. Technologies for Collaborative Democracy
11. Designing for Cuba: Necessary In(ter)vention
12. The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Memories
13. The Democratization of Ubiquitous Computing
14. Automatically Generating Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces
15. MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies
16. Automating & Customizing the Web With Keyword Programming
17. Science 2.0: The Design Science of Collaboration
18. Tangible Media for Design and Inspiration
19. Pario: the Next Step Beyond Audio and Video
20. Sculpting Behavior: Developing a Language for Hands-on Learning
21. Tap is the New Click
22. Social Annotation, Contextual Collaboration, Online Transparency
23. Enlightened Trial and Error: Gaining Insight Through New Tools
24. Computer Graphics as a Telecommunicati on Medium
25. Not Invented Here: Online Mapping Unraveled