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I thought you might like to know about "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" (aka "Emmy"), David Cope's creation, now "deceased": https://www.theguardian.com/t

• tailspin2019 5y ago
  Awesome link. This bit seems particularly interesting: > "People tell me they don't hear soul in the music," he says. "When they do that, I pull out a page of notes and ask them to show me where the soul is. We like to think that what we hear is soul, but I think audience members put themselves down a lot in that respect. The feelings that we get from listening to music are something we produce, it's not there in the notes. It comes from emotional insight in each of us, the music is just the trigger." So presumably, we can find "soul" and meaning in computer produced art because a large part of the meaning that we derive from art comes from within us, not necessarily the artist. This is interesting to contemplate.
• BlueTemplar 5y ago
  > He realised that what made a composer properly understandable, properly "affecting", was in part the fact of mortality. Impressive how Asimov has figured this out a while ago (in the Bicentennial Man) ! Otherwise, why isn't he using a pseudonym ?!?