I'm not sure what "darkly romantic" is. Must be something new. But speaking of romantic composers on the piano without saying the name of Liszt is grounds for closing this thread.
I'm not sure what "darkly romantic" is. Must be something new. But speaking of romantic composers on the piano without saying the name of Liszt is grounds for closing this thread.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Umm, I guess like Rachmaninov would be "darkly" Romantic and Chopin "brightly" Romantic. Again, I am not a huge classical aficionado, but there is some beautiful stuff written for the piano, fer sure. Romanticism is pretty darn abstract concept in music anyway, for the most part it seems to me just a label for a particular trend from a particular era.Originally Posted by Mario F.
To do that I think you would have to be able to clearly delineate the two. Based on the stuff I heard from Emily Howell, and since it is played by real people on real instruments the same as you would perform any composer's work, I would say it would be impossible for anyone to tell the difference in a blind test. Maybe not impossible, but there is not a distinct difference. So there could not be a separate category for the AI's.
However, if the program had been designed to perform via machinery music that would be impossible for real people to play, then I could see what you are talking about happen. I suppose that would be a very specialized genre and as you imply, not to everyone's taste. Although even in that case a human could compose such music too (I think they already do).
Last edited by MK27; 06-16-2010 at 10:40 AM.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
It doesn't matter to me if making music is algorithmic. It's like saying we wont or can't change the algorithm somehow, intentionally or not. Failing the Turing test is equally unimportant.
Consider how digital imaging has changed graphical art. You go on the internet and find something like minus, and it's quaint enough to be completely refreshing because the artist drew and colored on canvas like almost no one does now. Things are going to be just the same when people get used to accepting a machine's output as music.
Do artists deserve machines to help them create? Absolutely. Not knowing an instrument or good singing doesn't preclude people from writing prose that could benefit music: hence vocaloid, or synthesizers, or ...auto-tune. Hmm. How do we explain to ourselves using Emily Howell that we are creating music? Performance is the whole art? I'm not ready to admit that.
