Thanks for the paper recommendations. I've definitely come across the autoencoder paper on my deep learning music project last semester. We actually have a novel model that "walks" across a VAE encoding space to produce songs. By walking in circular motions, we can produce repeating themes and rhythms. You can find it samples of it at www.deepsymphony.com
Cool, I'll definitely look into these types of algorithms. Do you have exposure to these? I'm still a 3rd year undergrad and my maths isn't strong enough yet to grok some of the crazier algorithms.
Thanks! I was unsure if the blog would be a good idea or not because I have never tried writing about my projects too much. As a person who struggles to groks research papers I find blog posts that analyze them immensely helpful. I also find it helpful to summarize my thoughts for my own learning.