Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!ukma!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!rtots1.enet.dec.com!hotline_muh From: hotline_muh@rtots1.enet.dec.com (Sammy Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Music and AI Message-ID: <23491@shlump.lkg.dec.com> Date: 14 Jun 91 15:54:07 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.lkg.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 35 In article <6983@gara.une.oz.au>, cmunday@gara.une.oz.au (Craig Munday) writes... [Quotes and some lines deleted] >compose and play music. I myself can not accept the fact that computers can >compose music. Music is suppose to be an expression of ones inner feelings, >and because it comes from within it has a great power to move people into >different spheres. The feeling that is present in music of the past has >induced greated pride in ones country, I doubt that a machine can come close >to providing this attribute of music. I don't think that the feelings you get from listening to a piece of music are always the feelings the composer had when he wrote it down. (especially when listening to mainstream pop (which I do not;')) ... The composer has an Idea of what he WANTS the audience to feel, and tries to translate it into music notes. So ... Why couldn't computers, provided with the feeling that is to be 'produced' and some typical patterns which occure in this sort (e.g. producing the same 'feelings') of music, compose something enjoyable? > Convince me that a computer can provide the necessary feeling that music >needs. Somethings may better be left alone. just tried to. byebye, sammy ----- ******************************************************************************* * Sammy Fischer, Munich, Germany * * (hotline_muh@rtots1.dec.com) * * 'I thought I was a slice of Lemon jumpin' in a Gin tonic' * * (Ford Perfect) * ******************************************************************************* All Standart Disclaimer applying!