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Points: 1195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2014 at 17:54
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

You might find this interesting - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=8527 COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS, VOL. 1 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Back in the 80s I had a program on the Amiga that could algorithmically compose Bach-like fugues. I think it had a library of 100s of individual phrases that it could stitch together following a set of rules to form a 16 bar sequence. I believe there was another program that essentially coded the Well-tempered Clavier. 

There have been other automatic composers that use fractal maths to create music, but honestly most of them were no better than having a random note generator (so that's Avant Prog then).

This is what I was getting at. Sounds pretty neat! The closest thing I have to a musical computer is my Roland GR55 guitar synthesizer.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2014 at 17:59
Try this: http://computoser.com/ 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Try this: http://computoser.com/ 


the link does not work but it was easy to find the site. Honestly it sounds rather disappointing considered how advanced computer science is in other areas. It may help lazy musicians to consider some note progressions but not much more than that.
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2014 at 12:22
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Every limitation that you can think of regarding computer generated composition can be resolved with another set of rules and relationship, we can even have a set of rules and relationships that determine which set of rules and relationships to apply next. 
That is the limitation I'm talking about. To create anything different it must be programmed differently and is entirely unable to "deliberate" a composition from any kind of need to express. As of now, it's still a method of composing. It's nearly hands free, but, hey, so is aleatory. 
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Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Try this: http://computoser.com/ 


the link does not work but it was easy to find the site. Honestly it sounds rather disappointing considered how advanced computer science is in other areas. It may help lazy musicians to consider some note progressions but not much more than that.
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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Every limitation that you can think of regarding computer generated composition can be resolved with another set of rules and relationship, we can even have a set of rules and relationships that determine which set of rules and relationships to apply next. 
That is the limitation I'm talking about. To create anything different it must be programmed differently and is entirely unable to "deliberate" a composition from any kind of need to express. As of now, it's still a method of composing. It's nearly hands free, but, hey, so is aleatory. 
Confused computer programs cannot become sentient, nor can they emulate intelligence. You are expecting too much.
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2014 at 13:38
My point is that it's not really a game changer, or a replacement for musical expression by a human. There will be no day when music is only composed by computers. No one has said that per se, but it's a present idea in the conversation, the idea of computers replacing composers.
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Points: 20497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2014 at 13:43
^I can foresee Muzak being composed by computers. You know, the type that elevators like to listen to while they're working.
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2014 at 14:05
Yeah, again, utilities. But I wouldn't ever consider Muzak as an expression and I'm sure any musician is glad to get out of that job. Wink
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