Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] so this is pretty scary [MUSIC]

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Jonathan King wrote:

> Part of me thinks this is so cool. The other part of me is very afraid:
>
> http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna

Afraid of what?  That it takes music away from musicians and puts in in 
the hands of computer scientists?  It is pretty interesting.  How long 
before computers with software like this and some kind of AI can produce 
new music that we really like?


> So the geek-dude programmer suggesting this is theoretically impossible 
> is, I believe, exaggerating the case somewhat. I think what he did was 
> find an efficient implementation of pretty well-known blind source 
> separation algorithms. I don't think it's accidental the demo uses 
> guitar chords rather than piano chords primarily. Still...I'm impressed.

Would the separation be harder for piano?  I'm not sure.  I can think of 
another good reason to focus on guitar -- lots of hobbyists play guitars.

Mike

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