I get the impression that most of the people reading this post do not listen to or care for Mozart. First of all the music sounds more like new age "classic lite", and it certainly doesn't have any of the character of classical (that is 18th century) music, not to mention comparing it to Mozart. Unfortunately the term "classical" is also used in a generic sense for all European art music (Bach through Bartok). This is not like Deep Blue beating Kasparov, it is more like the machine beating a 10 year old at tick tack toe.
I don't mean to take away from the interesting software required for this. I agree this is not a man vs machine question. The taste and judgment that went into the software comes from the author. What if this was controlled by a Wii like gesture interface - would it still be computer generated?
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I believe you are thinking of Renoir, but the idea holds.
I get the impression that most of the people reading this post do not listen to or care for Mozart. First of all the music sounds more like new age "classic lite", and it certainly doesn't have any of the character of classical (that is 18th century) music, not to mention comparing it to Mozart. Unfortunately the term "classical" is also used in a generic sense for all European art music (Bach through Bartok). This is not like Deep Blue beating Kasparov, it is more like the machine beating a 10 year old at tick tack toe.
I don't mean to take away from the interesting software required for this. I agree this is not a man vs machine question. The taste and judgment that went into the software comes from the author. What if this was controlled by a Wii like gesture interface - would it still be computer generated?
Mozart, sheesh, maybe Phillip Glass..