Triumph of the Cyborg Composer

An anonymous reader writes "UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor David Cope's software, nicknamed Emmy, creates beautiful original music. So why are people so angry about that? From the article: 'Cope attracted praise from musicians and computer scientists, but his creation raised troubling questions: If a machine could write a Mozart sonata every bit as good as the originals, then what was so special about Mozart? And was there really any soul behind the great works, or were Beethoven and his ilk just clever mathematical manipulators of notes?'"

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Golden rule of plutocracy

[tepples]

Music follows a set of rules.

As does law, but law also follows the golden rule of plutocracy: he who has the gold makes the rules.

There absolutely isn't any reason why a computer program can't take a modern tune and play it following the same tonal styles as Mozart.

There is one: copyright.

Re:Here's To Mozart!

[BJ_Covert_Action]

Your post reminded me of:

Brett: Binary solo!
Germaine: 00011 001 00011 001 0 0 0 1 00 1 0 1 0 ...

...
I think this post sounded a lot better in my head...