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Re: The future of music has been predicted!

Date2016-04-09 23:59
FromRichard
SubjectRe: The future of music has been predicted!
Right!

Michael Rhoades <mrhoades@PERCEPTIONFACTORY.COM> wrote:

There is no box...



On 4/9/16 5:44 PM, Richard wrote:
Hear hear!

The touch of genius of a real composer will most likely never be caught by computer music of any kind.
You can play around with markov chains (for instance) and combine the inputs of Bach, the Beach Boys, the Beatles and Abba, and something similar will come out, but I doubt if it will be interesting...
Is't creativity about thinking/jumping out of the box?

Richard

On 09/04/16 19:15, Rory Walsh wrote:
Disclaimer, long, and opinionated post! 

Although I've been algorithmically generating music myself for years, I'm not sure if it's the future of music. I am very interested in the process, and also the results of such explorations, but the idea of listening to an endless stream of algorithmically generated music doesn't interest me at all. I very much admire the craft involved in the generation of such music, but I often find it becomes quite boring and predictable after some time. Musicians especially, are very quick to hear things in music. Idioms, progressions, rhythms, counter melodies etc. When we listen to an album over and over again, we often find new things in the track which we had not heard before. It's a process of listening and exploration of the music. These little patterns and idioms become the reason why we listen to the same music over and over again. I can only speak for myself, but I'm sure that when I listen to sections of my favorite, something happens on a psychological level that releases, to quote Brian Wilson, 'good vibrations' in the soul. It's not very often I get these on the first listening. It can happen, of course, but in most cases I find it happens when I get to know a piece of music. So for me at least, getting to know a piece of music is intrinsically tied to appreciating it. When I listen to continuous streams of algorithmically generated music, I just don't get the same 'good vibrations'. Just to clarify, I often listen to algorithmically generated music. But I listen to the same 5 minute piece over and over again. Thus I get to learn the piece and form an appreciation of its structure and form. 

In summary, I don't really know whee that came from! And it's only one person's opinion. I still think your project is absolutely cool, and I have enjoyed listening to your tracks. So please don't take any of this as a slur on your great work to date! Cheers.

Rory.
 

On 9 April 2016 at 10:21, Peter Burgess <pete.soundtechnician@gmail.com> wrote:
John Bastile has predicted the future success of my project! And he
wrote it down in a book in his online library.....

https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?algorythmradioisthefutureperiod

;)

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