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I encourage you to listen to more music, particularly if "humanity" is intrinsic to the art of it. There is plenty of music made by humans that is rather un-hum
by stepvhen 10y ago
I encourage you to listen to more music, particularly if "humanity" is intrinsic to the art of it. There is plenty of music made by humans that is rather un-humanlike. Noise, Drone, Chiptune, Glitch, Musique Concrete, Field Recordings, etc all explore the outer limits of music as an artform, and many have no more of a human element than somebody was there to create it (incidentally, most music in those genres doesn't often have lyrics).
- gglitch 10y agoGood point. An experimental algorithmic band called Autechre just released their 12th album this week, comprising over 4 hrs of music produced entirely by Max/MSP algorithms they've spent their entire careers learning to build and tweak. I think it's outstanding, many others will find it utterly unlistenable; but what's interesting is that they've dedicated their lives to making music that carries the flavor of malfunctioning machinery, while in the mean time, computers have been learning to make Muzak indistinguishable from pop nominally made by humans.