In Reply to: The computer thing has been done. posted by D Harvey on July 6, 2016 at 15:38:49:
I was thinking more in terms of using the computer analysis as a tool within one's own creative process in writing in an 18th-century style. If you left it completely up to your programming of the computer, then, yes, the result could be completely deterministic in the way that some post-Webern serialism is. I was thinking more in terms of a stunt - but perhaps it's more than a stunt to some composers: think George Rochberg! ;-)
As far as GREATNESS is concerned, I'm less concerned about that. My criteria are: is the music interesting and do I have an emotional connection with it. And, truth to tell, I could possibly see myself having an emotional connection with a computer algorithm - especially when its physical manifestation looks like Alicia Vikander! (Have you seen "Ex Machina"?) ;-)
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- Yeah - I remember that - Chris from Lafayette 17:22:15 07/06/16 (0)