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I don't agree. Instruments output just the sound by input directly or indrectly by humans. An advanced algorithm creating a new Mozart master piece is no differ

• TheOtherHobbes 7y ago
  That's exactly wrong. Composers have always included cultural references and emotional trigger patterns in music, and arranged them to create musical metaphors - sometimes just for the expression, sometimes as social commentary. For example Don Giovanni has quotes from the dance music of the day, and Mozart uses the quotes to highlight the experiences and feelings of the characters - sometimes ironically, sometimes not. And in the Baroque period there was an established tradition of associating standard compositional patterns with specific emotions. It was diluted in later periods, but it never quite went away. 20th century academic music turned its back on these traditions and made the dogmatic assertion that music is just formal structure with no other content, and more or less any structure will do as long as it's complicated enough to be intellectually interesting. But it's never been true. Not in classical music, not in academic music, and not even in "simple" pop.
  • claudiawerner 7y ago
    Great points. It's amazing how people seem to want to pay no attention to the whole field of aesthetics when they see a computer make some sounds. Computers can help in composition, of course, but a computer composing by itself is a whole different matter.