http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/01/iamus-computer-composes-classical-music

Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga

The first music composed by computer considered good enough for
top-class musicians to play is to be performed to mark the 100th
anniversary of Alan Turing's birth

==John ffitch

The comments by users who guessed correctly in the listening test are
interesting, esp. the one that says 'I got it right , but I am a
musician'. I'm glad to say that, as a musician, I couldn't tell which
of the examples were computer generated! They all sound like they
could have been created in the same way to me.

hi

On 7/1/12, john ffitch  wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/01/iamus-computer-composes-classical-music

interesting reading, but in my view, ultimately missing the boat
entirely. computers must be programmed to work. even if it is
'meta-programming.' to make an analogy, it seems iamus is like a
program that writes other programs; but instead, of generating
programs, it writes scores. really, not too earth shaking.

i guess there's some kind of 'evolutionary' process with the musical
phrases [more complicated programming] ...

maybe it's news worthy because some people think there's sufficient
quality in the program to put the score in front of progessional
musicians. either that, or it's one more last ditch effort to get
bodies in the auditorium ...

maybe i'm not understanding something[s] ...

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