Network Bending Neural Vocoders

Network bending [1] aims to elicit interesting creative output from generative neural networks by applying various transformations to the activations of groups of network nodes. This paper describes the investigation of how this emerging technique of ‘network bending’ can be used to provide novel creative control over sound synthesis networks based on the Magenta DDSP API [2] and how best to provide access to the resulting sound synthesis neural networks to creative practitioners.