Music2Fail: Transfer Music to Failed Recorder Style

TL;DR

This paper introduces 'failed-music style transfer', converting normal music into deliberately off-pitch recorder style, and presents a new dataset to facilitate research in this expressive and unconventional style transfer scenario.

Contribution

The work proposes a novel style transfer task for off-pitch recorder music and introduces the FR109 Dataset for this purpose.

Findings

Successful transfer of music to off-pitch recorder style

The generated music maintains naturalness and expressiveness

New dataset enables further research in unconventional style transfer

Abstract

The goal of music style transfer is to convert a music performance by one instrument into another while keeping the musical contents unchanged. In this paper, we investigate another style transfer scenario called ``failed-music style transfer''. Unlike the usual music style transfer where the content remains the same and only the instrumental characteristics are changed, this scenario seeks to transfer the music from the source instrument to the target instrument which is deliberately performed off-pitch. Our work attempts to transfer normally played music into off-pitch recorder music, which we call ``failed-style recorder'', and study the results of the conversion. To carry out this work, we have also proposed a dataset of failed-style recorders for this task, called ``FR109 Dataset''. Such an experiment explores the music style transfer task in a more expressive setting, as the generated audio should sound like an ``off-pitch recorder'' while maintaining a certain degree of naturalness.