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Akira was also a major Bach and Mozart aficionado. Some of my favorite life-memories are driving around Japan with Akira, listening to music like Bach's Mass in B Minor.
Just for fun, Akira put his coding and music theory skills to work, and he built an iOS app he called "Eternal Mozart" (go to the iOS App Store and search for it or check out this link). The music-generating algorithm Akira uses in this app was originally written by Mozart himself, known as the Musikalisches Würfelspiel.
Akira built upon Mozart's algorithm to spin out Mozart-like minuets in his app. He altered the ruleset and changed the probabilities to get the results he desired. NOTE: This does not use a 'contemporary AI' Large Language Model approach. Instead it uses probability-governed musical rules written by Mozart and Akira to build the output. He plans to do more work in this area, check out his paper Improvised, Free Ornamentation in Violin Music of the 18th Century
Akira's work is quite impressive! I wanted to acknowlegde Akira's acheivements and thank him for all the great times we've had together. How to do that, though? I decided to respond with a short piece using the output of his "Eternal Mozart" as the substrate, so I cranked up my mixing/stretching/folding reverb and filter algorithms and used this short excerpt
Brad Garton
October, 2026
