UHack is a 24-hour hackathon hosted by the University of Miami.
Florida International University students Mark Fajet, Sheila Alemany, and Jonathan Beltran developed a recurrent neural network that accepts a song and will create sounds like Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
“We processed midi files before sending them through a recurrent neural network developed using keras and tensorflow.” – Devpost
Challenges we ran to:
Understanding how midi files are used to represent music. This was difficult, but necessary to interpret the files.