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No doubt this is on the front page because of the previous generative music application posted not long ago on HN. I'll make the same comment here as I did ther
by wickedchicken 16y ago
No doubt this is on the front page because of the previous generative music application posted not long ago on HN. I'll make the same comment here as I did there (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2455023 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2455023), namely WolframTones tries too hard to emulate human-generated music and ends up sounding awful instead. There is an interesting argument to be made that 'art' attempted to be understood from an analytic viewpoint ("what is the automaton that creates jazz?") loses its meaning while extracting art from mathematics ("I wonder what a random automaton sounds like?") tends to have very interesting results. It seems to be a one-way operation.