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Welcome to Magenta – Google music AI project

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Re: Welcome to Magenta – Google music AI project

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That's a really good point, there's a market opportunity for a soundtrack generator that does a decent job of producing usable generic music for video productions.

There is and yamaha (?) owns one, but I can't find it right now. It was like band in a box, but even better.

Well, I just googled around and found my idea is not super unique.. already found 2 teams working on it:

https://www.jukedeck.com http://juke-bot.com/

Re: Welcome to Magenta – Google music AI project

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Having recently spent some time browsing the submissions of /r/deepdream and seeing how far computer generated imaging has come, I have no doubts that one day we will be listening to wonderful sounds that are generated by artificial intelligence. However an intrinsic part of the music (to me, anyways) as an art form, is the humanity of it. A computer can generate lyrics that are relatable on the surface, but knowing…

What about "instrumental" music (I never liked that moniker, myself)? You don't listen to it?

Re: Welcome to Magenta – Google music AI project

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This is the wrong idea. Of course a machine can recreate Aphex Twin with perfect fidelity, just like, unfortunately, a monkey can recreate a Jackson Pollock. But a machine does not yet have the capacity to lay its finger on the cultural pulse and create something new and slightly different that strikes a resonating cord, pulls people in a new direction, makes them grow, because in addition to having a certain algorit…

Not so sure about that. James/Aphex said back in 1997 that he was using algocomp for some of his music. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin#Musical_style

It does not matter. This is just a human using a tool to create music. It's identical to him playing the piano. The machine is not doing the work of making his music socially relevant, he is.

Re: Welcome to Magenta – Google music AI project

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Having recently spent some time browsing the submissions of /r/deepdream and seeing how far computer generated imaging has come, I have no doubts that one day we will be listening to wonderful sounds that are generated by artificial intelligence. However an intrinsic part of the music (to me, anyways) as an art form, is the humanity of it. A computer can generate lyrics that are relatable on the surface, but knowing…

Humans probably have a monopoly on music-with-words for the foreseeable future...
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