New Directions In Music Tech At Siggraph

Cyrrin writes "The 2003 Siggraph conference is under way in San Diego, and the Emerging Technologies booth is showcasing several noteworthy projects in the field of human-computer interaction in music production. First, The Continuator system, from Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris which learns in real-time the style of a performing pianist, taking into account chord structures, rhythm, and melody, and then renders a musical performance in a similar style. Next is The Augmented Composer Project which uses real-time image processing to read the arrangement and orientation of symbolic cards on a table to allow a composer to assemble components of a musical phrase. Finally, those wizards at the MIT Media Lab bring you Hyperscore, a visual composition program which is intended for childen to be able to easily create complex and fantastic music sequences. (And it's fun for adults too!) Hyperscore is part of the Toy Symphony project and is available for download by going to the Musictoys->Hyperscore-> Showcase page (Windows-only though)."

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An ejaculation a day...

[Anonymous Coward]

An ejaculation a day may keep prostate cancer at bay

SYDNEY, July 17 (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation may be really good for you.

Research by Australia's Cancer Council Victoria found that the more often men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to suffer the disease that kills more than half a million men each year.

The survey of 1,079 prostate cancer patients and 1,259 healthy men found that those who masturbated or had sex at least once a day in their 20s were a third less likely to develop the malady.

"For men in their 50s of course that's often not achievable," Graham Giles, who led the research team, told Reuters on Thursday.

"(But) masturbation isn't bad for you. I don't believe in the blindness and hairy palms theory. Prohibitions against ejaculations are not based on science," he said.

The study, conducted between 1994 and 1998 but still being analysed, did not focus specifically on masturbation.

Nevertheless, it was the largest so far to ask participants not just about their sexual relations but also about masturbation, and to analyse the answers.

Giles said the findings correlate with previous research that showed Roman Catholic priests were 30 percent more likely to get prostate cancer, but they contradict other studies that suggested having a variety of partners or frequent sex could lift the risk.

One theory that could explain the new results is that semen may have a carcinogenic effect on the cells lining the prostatic ducts if not flushed regularly out of the pipes by ejaculations.

The research is due to be published in this weekend's British Journal of Urology International.

I OWN A BUSINESS!!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re: A musicians worse nightmare.

[Gherald]

Oh, for a moment there I thought you were gonna say "humans should prepare to be replaced by machines"

Thank God that is not the case...

PARENT POSTER IS A KNOWN TROLL

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod this socialist-loving son of a bitch DOWN! For America and CAPTIALISM!!!

Here's the GNAA logo in SVG! Turn THIS into music!

[Anonymous Coward]

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hoki makidu do itsu goatse?

[Anonymous Coward]

neato!

Re: A musicians worse nightmare.

[fputs(shit, slashdot]

if IP were assigned to music itself in same way SCO think about software copyright, every possible sequence of note would be owned by them. will not be long before RIAA start making capaign contributions for this.

who is needs machine when you have congress?

More examples of such RL-to-music software.

[Anonymous Coward]

This webpage has a good deal more information on entire categories of them. It gets pretty technical, so it's probably only for those who already have some interest in electronic music.

Re:hi sexy Unix guys!

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Re:hi sexy Unix guys!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Say hello to the very first blind Slashdot graphic artist, folks.

Computers? and Music? What?

[nicholaides]

This is nothing new. Musically talentless people have been using computers to create new age music for over a decade now.