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Johann Sebastian Bach: Google celebrates musician's birthday with first AI-powered doodle

Made in partnership with the Google Magenta and Google PAIR teams, the doodle, powered by AI, is an interactive experience encouraging netizens to compose a two-measure melody of their choice.

March 22, 2019 / 10:51 IST
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In a first, Google celebrated renowned German musician Johann Christian Bach with an AI-powered doodle.

Made in partnership with the Google Magenta and Google PAIR teams, the doodle, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is an interactive experience encouraging netizens to compose a two-measure melody of their choice.

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With the press of a button that is located at the bottom right corner, the doodle uses machine learning to harmonise the custom melody into Bach's signature music style.

Bach was born and raised in the German town of Eisenach in a large musical family. His father played multiple instruments and worked as director of the town's musicians, while his eldest brother was also a musician.