EMI's output is convincing enough to persuade human listeners that its music is human-generated to a high level of competence.
Projects in Pop music automation may include, but are not limited to, ideas in melody creation and song development, vocal generation or improvement, automatic accompaniment and lyric composition.
Some systems exist that automatically choose chords to accompany a vocal melody in real-time.
A user with no musical experience can create a song with instrumental accompaniment just by singing into a microphone.
These higher-order chains tend to generate results with a sense of phrasal structure, rather than the 'aimless wandering' produced by a first-order system.
Pablo Gervás[5] has developed a noteworthy system called ASPERA that employs a case-based reasoning (CBR) approach to generating poetic formulations of a given input text via a composition of poetic fragments that are retrieved from a case-base of existing poems.