Neural Funk: AI generates endless breakbeats

Enthusiasts from Skoltech have trained a WaveGAN on 7500 vintage drum loops, then used the resulting model to generate thousands of new drum loops.
I have attached my favorite 6-minute sample (147 bpm). Love it!

The result was obtained by moving a point slowly through a random trajectory in the model’s latent space. Each point in the latent space corresponds to either an existing or non-existing break. Linear movement between two points results in a smooth transition between two corresponding breaks.

The pace of progress in synthetic audio and image generation is mind-blowing. Will we be able to generate infinite-movies? Imagine an infinite Harry Potter story or an endless New Year's speech of Putin 😅


▶️ A 6-hour Neural Funk on YouTube
🎧 A 6-hour sequence in wav format

📓Colab notebook with pretrained models