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From: androula@cb.ecn.purdue.edu (Ioannis Androulakis)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Looking for Neural Net/Music Applications
Message-ID: <937@cb.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 9 May 89 05:46:08 GMT
Reply-To: androula@cb.ecn.purdue.edu (Ioannis Androulakis)
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I apologize for this posting, since it is actually a question
addressed to Jerry Ricario, concerinig one of his postings 
long time ago. It is about the work he is doing attempting
to have a NN learn how to do basic jazz "impovisation"
My question is the following, how do you define "improvisation"
and, once you do that, what do you mean by "learn how to imporovise"
I believe that imporvisation is not the output of some neurons 
that learned how to do something. What I do not undertstand is 
what you expect the network to learn. If we will ever be able
to construct a network that has the ability to imporvise, as a human,
then we would have achieved much more that this imporvisation.
Who knows, this way we will may be able to "construct" a new 
Chopin or a List, both masters of imporvisation......

Thank you, and once again I apologize, although I will be waiting
for any answer since I happen to be interested in both AI and music.

 yannis
 androula@helium.ecn.purdue.edu