Emily Howell

Emily Howell is a computer program created by David Cope,{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jul/11/david-cope-computer-composer|title=David Cope: 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas'|last=Adams|first=Tim|date=2010-07-10|work=The Observer|access-date=2017-10-06|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}} Dickerson Emeriti Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/6404737/Emily-Howell-the-computer-program-that-composes-classical-music.html|title=Emily Howell: the computer program that composes classical music|last=Leach|first=Ben|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=2009-10-22|access-date=2017-10-06|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/09/virtual-composer-makes-beautiful-musicand-stirs-controversy/|title=Virtual Composer Makes Beautiful Music and Stirs Controversy|first=Jacqui|last=Cheng|date=30 September 2009|publisher=Ars Technica}} Emily Howell is an interactive interface that "hears" feedback from listeners, and builds its own musical compositions from a source database, derived from a previous composing program called Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI).David Cope (1987), "Experiments in Music Intelligence." In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, San Francisco: Computer Music Assn. Cope attempts to “teach” the program by providing feedback so that it can cultivate its own "personal" style. The software appears to be based on latent semantic analysis.{{cite journal|last=Wiggins|first=G. A.|title=Computer Models of Musical Creativity: A Review of Computer Models of Musical Creativity by David Cope|journal=Literary and Linguistic Computing|date=14 December 2007|volume=23|issue=1|pages=109–116|doi=10.1093/llc/fqm025|url=http://yaxu.org/tmp/wiggins-cope.pdf|access-date=24 October 2014|archive-date=19 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319184100/http://yaxu.org/tmp/wiggins-cope.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Emily Howell's first album{{Cite web|url=http://www.centaurrecords.com/store/emily-howell-from-darkness-light-music-composed-by-a-computer-program-designed-by-david-cope-from-darkness-light.html|title=Emily Howell: From Darkness, Light. Music Composed by a computer program designed by David Cope. From Darkness, Light|website=www.centaurrecords.com}} was released in February 2009 by Centaur Records (CRC 3023). Titled From Darkness, Light, this album contains its Opus 1, Opus 2, and Opus 3 compositions for chamber orchestra and multiple pianos. Its second album Breathless was released in December 2012, also by Centaur Records (CRC 3255).{{Cite news|url=https://www.nextnature.net/2015/03/artificial-intelligence-able-to-create-music/|title=Artificial Intelligence Able to Create Music|date=2015-03-21|work=Next Nature Network|access-date=2017-10-06|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.centaurrecords.com/store/emily-howell-breathless-silver-blood.html|title=Emily Howell: Breathless. Silver Blood|website=www.centaurrecords.com}}