Can computers calculate the formula for a successful musical? British theatergoers will soon find out. According to The Guardian, UK TV channel Sky Arts has commissioned the creation of a computer-generated musical, to premiere at the Arts Theater in London in February 2016.
Entitled Beyond the Fence, the musical is a collaboration between humans and machines. While computers generated elements of plot and score, humans created the choreography and staging. Lyrics, meanwhile, were a collaboration between Nathan Taylor and Benjamin Till (creators of 2014’s Our Gay Wedding: The Musical), and a recurrent neural network system called The Cloud Lyricist.
via Mental Floss
