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From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Hofstadter on computer music
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 11:52:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 11:52:00 1985
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/***** rocksvax:net.ai / ucla-cs!srt /  1:36 am  May 12, 1985*/
>method is unlikely to produce great music.  However, suppose we built a
>machine with all the memories and music knowledge of Beethoven, and then
>let this machine loose to create music by the same techniques of inspiration
>and experimentation that human composers use.  It might be able to create
>a great piece of music AND tell you why:  ``This passage evokes in me the

I believe the band Boston used to use techiques like this to produce
their music.  The analyzed all the hit songs and figured out what people
liked in them and generated songs that constistantly became instant hits.  The
music, although not great, always sounded OK when first heard but quickly
became boring.  These folks I heard were MIT people and may have used
these AI techniques to help them.  So ucla-cs!srt's idea of seeding a program
to generate music based on past music is not to wild of idea, we probably
have heard the results of such techiques already!!

Dave

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