Is the combination of music and cold AI still music? Flutist Lin Yijun stepped into the field of AI out of curiosity. She admits that she is poor at mathematics and wants to use AI to make music more diverse. In fact, AI is relevant to everyone, think flexibly and create value beyond AI

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I haven’t seen it with my own eyes, it’s very strange It’s hard to imagine what it would be like for real people and AI software to perform on the same stage? In mid-November, two violinists and a violist were practicing a "three-person quartet" on the stage at the Zyxen Performing Arts Hall of Qingdao University. The theme song of the movie "Scent of a Woman", the cello is played by AI, and the cello's beat is a bit messy. "The AI ??automatic accompaniment needs to be heard to respond. With hardware improvements, such as a louder microphone and more sensitive pickup, the AI ??will keep up." Flutist Lin Yijun explains.

Ask cellist Li Kexuan if he feels "replaced"? The freshman girl from Tsinghua University's bachelor's class smiled and said, "No, it looks like the AI ??is still learning." She went on stage to play "Mozart's Serenade in D Major" with three friends. The four people's eyes met and the music started. The audience breathed a sigh of relief as their breathing rose and fell in unison, "This kind of tacit understanding is what it feels like to be in an ensemble!"

During the performance of this "Serenade", AI allowed the audience to "see" the music. When the melody sounds, matrix squares of four different colors appear on the stage background screen, moving continuously with the melody. "This is AI automatic music notation technology. A color represents an instrument. Wherever the music is played, the software automatically tracks and locates it. The current music content is presented on the screen, visualizing the music," Lin Yijun said.

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In 2019, Tsinghua University officially established the "AI Orchestra" to explore and experiment with various "human-machine concertos." Seven professors from the Department of Power Machinery and Engineering who love music developed AI music software, and more than 20 students from departments such as Electrical Engineering and Materials played and came up with ways to interact with the software. "We are the first AI orchestra in Asia," Lin Yijun, who serves as music director, said proudly. "Thanks to these students who "write code with their left hand and play the piano with their right hand" for being willing to play together and see how humans and AI can work together."

Lin Yijun stepped into the AI ??world out of curiosity.

She has never been a traditional musician. She has always tried to make music story-telling and make musical instrument playing "less boring". When she heard that Su Li, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica, was doing research on "automatic music notation," she was "immediately attracted by the four words "automatic music notation" and went to talk to him." September 2019 She performed a "Whispers of the Night" classical concert in Weiwuying, using AI's real-time sound recognition and matching it with multimedia images of Kaohsiung's cities and oceans to create a down-to-earth and novel concert. "Classical music is far away from everyone, but Kaohsiung is right at their feet," said Lin Yijun, who is also from Kaohsiung. She hopes that AI will make it easier to connect classical music with local emotions and make more people like music.