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Genius composers are masters of taking existing music and bending it in genius ways. There's quite a bit more to it than being new. It's about expression, not
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
Genius composers are masters of taking existing music and bending it in genius ways.
There's quite a bit more to it than being new.
It's about expression, not structure. You can copy-with-statistical-inference the structures but all that gets you - at best - is a kind of melted parody of the source works.
You can also do what David Cope does, which is take one structure and overlay it on another. That sounds a lot more coherent, but that's because it is - inevitably.
Creating that kind of coherence and intent from scratch - deliberately, and being able to assess that you've created it, and to what extent - is very probably impossible with statistical techniques.
- PennRobotics 5y agoAfter writing my comment and reading yours and thinking a while... I think if somebody saw the first five songs of Hamilton, a few lines from thirty other songs, plus a four-measure theme for each character... it wouldn't matter what other non-Hamilton knowledge of the composers or cutting edge tools a person had; it would be impossible to write anything remotely close to the real Hamilton (even if you compared just the music without lyrics and knew the full dialogue). Maybe something cute and sometimes clever could be composed... but it wouldn't even be close to the real thing. Though this music sample is interesting, there's total validity when people say that we can't call this THE finished version. Even with a handful of dedicated experts working on this project, it can't possibly be close to the real thing if Ludwig had been able to finish this symphony.
- macrolocal 5y agoI bet some kind of nested generative-adversarial approach could do that.