19 Mar
2009
19 Mar
'09
8:23 p.m.
Justin Smith wrote:
For dense / polyrythmic / nonrythmic stuff, automatically generated
notation is going to be extremely unhelpful. Unless there have been
huge improvements in midi to score AI, the results are just going to
be messy.
Think about how much work the program would have to do, figuring out
if you are playing shorter notes, of if the tempo is increasing,
whether you just changed key signitures or are throwing in a bunch of
accidentals, etc. etc. Just like with image recognition, there are
many things that are immediately obvious to a human listener that
computers historically have much trouble with.
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Well I have warned him about this
but he seems to want to go ahead with
it anyway. His problem is as I've said he's self taught and doesn't
really like that way of working - I.e. composing stuff as score first
and then playing it - he prefers to do it all by ear, and the music he
plays is mostly improvised from session to session. He's managed fine so
far like this, but is finding that to get work and to work with other
musicians he needs to be able to write notation.
I did warn him at the start that the kind of notation produced by a
program wouldn't really represent his music properly, but even if he
just used it as a way of learning to write notation himself, it would
still be a help to him I think.
andy