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This should be doable? You could feed your entire catalogue into the machine, and have it start generating music. For every pass, you could listen to the create
by pcf 8y ago
This should be doable? You could feed your entire catalogue into the machine, and have it start generating music. For every pass, you could listen to the created piece and tell it "I would not make anything like element X, because of [specific reason], so take that out."
Enough of these passes and detailed removal of elements you wouldn't create, and you should get closer and closer to a machine that would be your musical clone.
- jimmcslim 8y agoHow well would it cope with the evolution of an artist's ouevre; would it recognise that certain sounds are from a certain period?
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoYou need a machine description of "element" - which turns out to be a lot harder than it sounds.
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- AgentME 8y agoThis is missing the complexity to a lot of music. Swap "music" in your post for "books" or "software" or "human interactions" and maybe the skipped complexity becomes obvious. What if the key ingredient to someone's music is a long over-arching structure throughout the song of highs and lows following the emotional progression of a predictable 3-act story? The software would need to be capable of recognizing and synthesizing and tuning that kind of high-level element and surely many others like that. Even songs that are made up of a few repeating tracks overlaid probably have high-level qualities like that the artist tweaks the setup until the end results meet the high-level goal they were aiming for. I'm sure a musician who was also a programmer who understood their own tastes and creation process well enough could currently create something like this for a specific genre, but I think we're very far from a one-size-fits-all generator.