Final Presentation of the Data-Science Project "RAiMONES": http://raimones.komakino.ch

1. PROJECT RAIMONES:
TRAIN A COMPUTER TO
COMPOSE RAMONES SONGS

2. HEY, HO,

3. LET’S GO!

4. SO WHO
ARE THE RAMONES?

5. WELL I THINK WE’RE THE
GREATEST ROCK’N’ROLL
BAND IN THE WORLD.
Joey Ramone
WHO THE F**K ARE THE RAMONES?

6. 1975 - 1996
FACT #1

7. 14 STUDIO ALBUMS,
178 SONGS
FACT #2

8. AVERAGE SONG LENGTH:
~2 MINUTES (AND NO SOLOS)
FACT #3

9. THE LAST SONG OF THEIR LAST ALBUM:
BORN TO DIE IN BERLIN
FACT #4

10. ALL ARE DEAD

11. JOEY: 1951 - 2001
JOHNNY: 1948 - 2004
DEE DEE: 1951 - 2002
TOMMY: 1949 - 2014

12. (ALMOST)
ALL ARE DEAD

13. ONE, TWO…

14. THREE, FOUR!

15. WHO AM I?!
AND WHY I NEED
AI TO MAKE
MUSIC.

16. WHO AM I?
WHO AM I…
▸ Electronics Engineer with a PhD
from ETH Zurich (2006)
▸ Specialization:
Analog Chip Design, Communications,
Digital Signal Processing
… and now Data Science

17. WHO AM I?
…AND WHY I NEED AI TO MAKE MUSIC
▸ Playing Bass Guitar and Violin in Bands
since 1992

18. 2ND DEGREE FRIENDS
WITH THE RAMONES
FACT #1:

19. ONE, TWO…

20. THREE, FOUR!

21. PROJECT
DESCRIPTION
RAIMONES.
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22. THERE'S NOBODY AS GOOD AS THE
RAMONES, NEVER WILL BE. I MEAN
EVERYBODY JUST KINDA TAKES OUR
SOUND AS THEIR FOUNDATION.
Joey Ramone
PROJECT DESCRIPTION

23. PROJECT RAIMONES:
TRAIN A COMPUTER TO
COMPOSE RAMONES SONGS

24. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
INPUT: SONG-LYRICS & SONGS
▸ Lyrics:
Lyrics of all 178 songs
▸ Songs:
Scraped 4 websites to download
130 MIDI Songs (60 unique songs)
DESIRED OUTPUT
▸ New Lyrics inspired by The Ramones
▸ New Songs (Guitar & Bass) inspired by The Ramones

25. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - DEEP LEARNING
RAIMONES: HOW TO?
▸ Train a deep learning neural network with the
corpus of Ramones songs

26. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - DEEP LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY: DEEP LEARNING NETWORKS (LSTM-RNN)
▸ Deep Learning:
Perceptron - Multi Layer Perceptron - Deep learning NN
▸ RNN:
Recurrent Neural Networks

27. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - DEEP LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY: DEEP LEARNING NETWORKS (LSTM-RNN)
▸ Deep Learning:
Perceptron - Multi Layer Perceptron - Deep learning NN
▸ RNN:
Recurrent Neural Networks

28. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - DEEP LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY: DEEP LEARNING NETWORKS (LSTM-RNN)
▸ Deep Learning:
Perceptron - Multi Layer Perceptron - Deep learning NN
▸ RNN:
Recurrent Neural Networks

29. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - DEEP LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY: DEEP LEARNING NETWORKS (LSTM-RNN)
▸ Deep Learning:
Perceptron - Multi Layer Perceptron - Deep learning NN
▸ RNN:
Recurrent Neural Networks

30. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - DEEP LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY: DEEP LEARNING NETWORKS (LSTM-RNN)
▸ Deep Learning:
Perceptron - Multi Layer Perceptron - Deep learning NN
▸ RNN:
Recurrent Neural Networks
Absolute Game-Changer

31. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - LYRICS
INPUT: 178 SONG-LYRICS
▸ Lyrics:
Scraped websites to download the lyrics of all 178 songs
"I Don't Want To Grow Up" When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up Nothing ever seems to turn out right I
don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things Makes wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up I don't ever want to be that way I don't wanna grow up Seems
that folks turn into things that they never want The only thing to live for is today... I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set I don't
wanna grow up Open up the medicine chest I don't wanna grow up I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair
to fall out I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't
wanna have the biggest amount I don't wanna grow up Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up They all go
out and drinkin all night I don't wanna grow up I'd rather stay here in my room Nothin' out there but sad and gloom I don't
wanna live in a big old tomb on grand street When I see the 5 oclock news I don't wanna grow up Comb their hair and
shine their shoes I don't wanna grow up Stay around in my old hometown I don't wanna put no money down I don't wanna
get a big old loan Work them fingers to the bone I don't wanna float on a broom Fall in love, get married then boom How
the hell did it get here so soon I don't wanna grow up "Makin Monsters For My Friends" Everybody said so man you could
see it on T.V. They stood there ashamed with nowhere to go Nobody wants them now the kids are alright Every day is a
holiday and pushin' people around I'm making monsters for my friends I'm making monsters for my friends Someone
caught one I could see so myself I had to call 254 so they wouldn't blame me We wanted to know how much trouble there
was When we asked our daddy he said it's just because I'm making monsters for my friends I'm making monsters for my
friends I don't wanna open a can of worms and I don't want any Spagetti-Os And I could always tell when someone is

32. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - LYRICS
INPUT: 178 SONG-LYRICS
"I Don't Want To Grow Up" When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up Nothing ever seems to turn out right I
don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things Makes wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up I don't ever want to be that way I don't wanna grow up Seems
that folks turn into things that they never want The only thing to live for is today... I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set I don't
wanna grow up Open up the medicine chest I don't wanna grow up I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair
to fall out I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't
wanna have the biggest amount I don't wanna grow up Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up They all go
out and drinkin all night I don't wanna grow up I'd rather stay here in my room Nothin' out there but sad and gloom I don't
wanna live in a big old tomb on grand street When I see the 5 oclock news I don't wanna grow up Comb their hair and
shine their shoes I don't wanna grow up Stay around in my old hometown I don't wanna put no money down I don't wanna
get a big old loan Work them fingers to the bone I don't wanna float on a broom Fall in love, get married then boom How
the hell did it get here so soon I don't wanna grow up "Makin Monsters For My Friends" Everybody said so man you could
see it on T.V. They stood there ashamed with nowhere to go Nobody wants them now the kids are alright Every day is a
holiday and pushin' people around I'm making monsters for my friends I'm making monsters for my friends Someone
caught one I could see so myself I had to call 254 so they wouldn't blame me We wanted to know how much trouble there
was When we asked our daddy he said it's just because I'm making monsters for my friends I'm making monsters for my
friends I don't wanna open a can of worms and I don't want any Spagetti-Os And I could always tell when someone is
▸ Lyrics from 178 songs:
▸ 6’361 lines, 29’976 words, 154’207 characters
▸ Most frequent word: “I” (1351 occurrences)
▸ Most frequent noun: “baby” (272 occurrences)
▸ Most frequent verb: “go” (235 occurrences)
▸ other notable words: “yeah” (196), “love” (168), “punk” (98)

33. "I Don't Want To Grow Up" When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up Nothing ever seems to turn out right I
don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things Makes wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up I don't ever want to be that way I don't wanna grow up Seems
that folks turn into things that they never want The only thing to live for is today... I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set I don't
wanna grow up Open up the medicine chest I don't wanna grow up I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair
to fall out I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't
wanna have the biggest amount I don't wanna grow up Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up They all go
out and drinkin all night I don't wanna grow up I'd rather stay here in my room Nothin' out there but sad and gloom I don't
wanna live in a big old tomb on grand street When I see the 5 oclock news I don't wanna grow up Comb their hair and
shine their shoes I don't wanna grow up Stay around in my old hometown I don't wanna put no money down I don't wanna
get a big old loan Work them fingers to the bone I don't wanna float on a broom Fall in love, get married then boom How
the hell did it get here so soon I don't wanna grow up "Makin Monsters For My Friends" Everybody said so man you could
see it on T.V. They stood there ashamed with nowhere to go Nobody wants them now the kids are alright Every day is a
holiday and pushin' people around I'm making monsters for my friends I'm making monsters for my friends Someone
caught one I could see so myself I had to call 254 so they wouldn't blame me We wanted to know how much trouble there
was When we asked our daddy he said it's just because I'm making monsters for my friends I'm making monsters for my
friends I don't wanna open a can of worms and I don't want any Spagetti-Os And I could always tell when someone is
PROJECT DESCRIPTION - LYRICS
TECHNOLOGY
▸ Network:
▸ Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network
▸ sequence-length: 40 characters
▸ 33 sec/ epoch * 80 Epochs = ~45 min on GPU NVIDIA K80
▸ Keras Python Library
model = Sequential()
model.add(LSTM(128, input_shape=(40, len(chars))))
model.add(Dense(len(chars)))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))

34. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - LYRICS
FIRST OUTPUT:
▸ all of a sudden i feel son gone a gas
i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive,
i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive,
i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive,
i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive,
i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive,
i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive, yeah, oh yeah

35. FIGHT FOR MONEY, FIGHT FOR FUN
I WANT YOU AND I WANT YOU AND YOU WANNA SEE A HOLD
I DON'T WANNA BE ALL MY BABY I HELL NEVER WAS GOTTA WANT TO BE
DON'T WANT TO BE ALRIGHT
I WANTED IT A GOOD FROM ME
I DON'T WANNA BE ALL I WANT
RAiMONES
RAIMONES: LYRICS

36. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - LYRICS
INPUT: 178 SONG-LYRICS
▸ Network:
▸ Markov Chain Model
e.g., for n=3:
‘punkrocker’ -> P(’k’ | ‘pun’)
P(‘r’ | ‘unk’), …
▸ 0.2 seconds on a regular PC

37. I'M THE MAN WHO MAKE THE STREET HIS HOME.
AND MY LEAN, MEAN HEART
I JUST WANNA HAVE TO SHOUT IT OUT
I DON'T HAVE BRAIN DAMAGE
I'M NOT YOUR ENEMY GIRL, I AM YOUR FRIEND
COME WITH US AND FIND THE PLEASURES
OF A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER
RAMarkovS, 10-gram
RAIMONES: TEXT GENERATION

38. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - SONGS
INPUT: 130 SONGS (GUITAR, BASS)
GuitarBass
Time: 1/16th Quantization

39. TECHNOLOGY: SONGS
maxlen = 32 #max. seq.-length: 32 or 64
step = 1 # or 3
model = Sequential()
model.add(LSTM(128, return_sequences=True,
input_shape=(maxlen, len(words))))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(LSTM(128, return_sequences=False))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(Dense(len(words)))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))
PROJECT DESCRIPTION - SONGS

40. OUTPUT: SONGS
PROJECT DESCRIPTION - SONGS

41. OUTPUT: SONGS
PROJECT DESCRIPTION - SONGS

42. GABBA,

43. GABBA, HEY!

44. IMPACT &
CONCLUSION.
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45. FOR AN INFINITE
NUMBER OF RAMONES
INFLUENCED SONGS!
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

46. IMPACT & CONCLUSION
CURRENT & FUTURE USAGE
▸ Currently:
▸ Tool for creatives
▸ Inspiration for artists
▸ Future Products:
▸ Music generation for Computer
Games or Background Music
▸ Generate Music according to
listener’s mood automatically
▸ Work with other bands

47. PLAY BEFORE YOU GET GOOD,
BECAUSE BY THE TIME YOU GET
GOOD, YOU’RE TOO OLD TO PLAY.
Joey Ramone
TEAM, TIMELINE, BUDGET & IMPACT

48. FORMER GUITARIST OF MARKY
RAMONE & THE INTRUDERS
— INSPIRED BY RAIMONES
MR. RATBOY

49. FIRST RAMONES-INSPIRED AI-ASSISTED SONG!
“I’M ALIVE” - MR. RATBOY & THE RAIMONES

50. ONE, TWO…

51. THREE, FOUR!

52. TEAM, TIMELINE, BUDGET & IMPACT
THANK YOU TO:
▸ Technical Advisor:
Dr. Amélie Anglade
▸ Musical Advisor:
Mr. Ratboy
▸ Websites:
crimson-mist.tripod.com
freemidi.org
midimelody.ru
www.azlyrics.com
▸ Input-Providers:
The Ramones

53. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
ANY QUESTIONS?
HTTP://RAIMONES.KOMAKINO.CH
MFREY@IEEE.ORG
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54. SOMETIMES I FEELIN' MY SOUL IS AS
RESTLESS AS THE WIND
MAYBE I WAS BORN TO DIE IN BERLIN
Dee Dee Ramone
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