Orchestrations of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy by Flow Machines

Check out and like also This video was realized within Flow Machines, a project by Sony CSL, in collaboration with UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Flow Machines received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 291156. The various harmonizations of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy were realized using different prototypes developed in the project. - The Bossa Nova accompaniment was produced using original guitar recordings of François Pachet and recomposed using an improved concatenative synthesis algorithm designed by Mathieu Ramona and François Pachet - The Lounge harmonization was produced from transcriptions of lounge theme (Cookie Raver by Illumination) transcribed by Alexandre Tanguy, and transformed using an algorithm developed by François