Machine learning is important for computer science because it allows complex functions to be modeled without them being explicitly written. Those models are automatically learned from examples, instead of being manually defined. This has a huge implication for arts in general since explicitly writing the rules of a painting or a musical score is inherently difficult.
In recent years, the advent of deep learning has propelled machine learning to new heights in terms of efficiency. Deep learning is especially important for our use case of music generation since using deep learning techniques doesn't require a preprocessing step of feature extraction, which is necessary for classical machine learning and hard to do on raw data such as image, text, and – you guessed it – audio. In other words, traditional machine learning algorithms...
