12 Feb
2009
12 Feb
'09
4:22 a.m.
Hallo,
Chris Cannam hat gesagt: // Chris Cannam wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Frank Barknecht
<fbar(a)footils.org> wrote:
I know this term from research on human-like robots.
Anyway it's not just "automatic accompaniment" as in "Band in a
Box"
that I'm referring to, but the use of a computer to do what it can do
better than any human, namely carrying out algorithms for complicated
processes designed by a human.
Also experimentation with a computer in this regard can give valuable
insights into how the human mind experiences music. In the end, the
computer, like the book, is a tool to help humans think.
A good introduction to what I mean is Robert Rowe's book "Machine
Musicianship" by MIT Press.
Ciao
--
Frank
Beat and rhythm detection also is a hot topic for
many years in the
academic music scene as it's a necessary prerequisite to let a
computer play along with human performers, ideally in real time.
I actually find this goal more distasteful than the one Fons is objecting to.
I can understand why people are interested in automatic accompaniment,
but mangling human-made music to fit a specific timing map seems like
a more proper goal to me -- "manufactured" being somehow preferable to
"simulated". (I think this may be an "uncanny valley" situation --
if
you haven't met this term before, look it up.)