<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On May 25, 2016, at 4:25 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I read a few years ago about a computer that could compose write popular music that was very listenable. I did not follow it up because I am not interested in popular. (Of course in classical, you can find some that seems to have been written by a random numbers table (1930s and afterwards). Ugly ugly 'music'. )</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Is this an AI thing? Anyone?</p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill w</p></div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">See <a href="http://www.jair.org/media/3908/live-3908-7454-jair.pdf">http://www.jair.org/media/3908/live-3908-7454-jair.pdf</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Algorithms can generate different styles of music now, including 'classical.' E.g., listen to this program that uses Fux's rules of counterpoint (strictly speaking, baroque music-like) to generate a piece:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/6-GI0we1tBQ">https://youtu.be/6-GI0we1tBQ</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><br></span><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>