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Musical complexity is hard to judge, and the relationship between complexity and "sounding good" is evasive. Consider Satie's Gnossienne #1: https://www.youtub
by Jeff_Brown 5y ago
Musical complexity is hard to judge, and the relationship between complexity and "sounding good" is evasive. Consider Satie's Gnossienne #1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0
It's ... simple, right? It's just a few really good choices in an unbelievably enormous nearly-Hilbert space. I could listen to that stuff forever.
Most of Nirvana's songs have a similar quality. Judging from where OpenAI Jukebox was a couple years ago, I imagine in a decade we might have AI that sounds as good as Nirvana.
On the other hand, my favorite piece ever is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. We seem to be very far away from any kind of Stravinsky algorithm.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoHa! I grew up listening to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, my Dad loved it. And yes, it will be a while before any combination of DL models can write something as touching as Gnossienne, or ‘simple’ Bach stuff that I love like Jesu Joy of Man;s Desire.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoBach is a good example of music that's both simple and complex. He'll take a few (often just one) fairly simple theme, and weave variations of it into a lush fabric that's coherent and natural (yet always surprising) -- the nearest thing to justice one finds in music.