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Harmonic extraction algorithms are cool. Make a recording of yourself standing in a stairwell hitting a wok with a spoon, push that through the algo, and you ge
by JonnieCache 13y ago
Harmonic extraction algorithms are cool. Make a recording of yourself standing in a stairwell hitting a wok with a spoon, push that through the algo, and you get avant-garde jazz out the other end. Sometimes. It's certainly easier than spending 30 years learning to play the keyboard.
I guess with it hooked to youtube we can rapidly try out all sorts of unusual inputs.
- emersonrsantos 13y agoMany musicians consider themselves 'composers' because they know harmony. Harmony is 'composition for dummies'. To compose real stuff you have to study counterpoint for lifetime. And there are even worse algorithmic composing systems like Lyle Murphy's Equal Interval System, Schillinger, etc... I love algorithms but that's not art.
- JonnieCache 13y agoOf course. It's just a fun way of generating raw material and ideas, not for creating finished pieces.
- mtinkerhess 13y agoDepends what you mean by "real stuff" I guess. You could just as easily argue that musicians consider themselves composers because they read Fux. Counterpoint is important for certain styles of composition and irrelevant for others. At its most basic, composition is the creation of a musical score. What form the score takes, what genre the piece is in, the method of composition, the evaluation of the resulting work, are all flexible depending on the style of music and the quirks of the particular composer and audience. Whether something qualifies as "art" is almost entirely subjective -- if it speaks to an audience (including the composer!) it's worth something.