Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation – A Survey
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#2Would a computer endlessly churning out music on par with Beethoven, Chopin, and the Beatles make us happier as humans?
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#3Would a computer endlessly churning out music on par with Beethoven, Chopin, and the Beatles make us happier as humans?
Some of us, yes, some of us, no?
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#4Would a computer endlessly churning out music on par with Beethoven, Chopin, and the Beatles make us happier as humans?
Some of us, yes, some of us, no?
Shall I refine the question then?
Would Beethoven, Chopin, or the Beatles be happy if a computer churned out equivalent masterpieces?
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#8There is even now an international research workshop on deep learning for music that was created in 2017: http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017/
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#9Would a computer endlessly churning out music on par with Beethoven, Chopin, and the Beatles make us happier as humans?
It depends on what you mean by "on par".
If you mean "endlessly churning out songs that sound pretty much like Beethoven, Chopin, or the Beatles", then probably not. Humans do that too.
If you mean "endlessly creating new, innovative, and enjoyable material, like Beethoven, Chopin, and the Beatles did", then I think it's a very interesting proposition and lots of people would be happy to have that. I am skeptical it can be done with ML though.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of us, yes, some of us, no?
Shall I refine the question then? Would Beethoven, Chopin, or the Beatles be happy if a computer churned out equivalent masterpieces?
The best answer I've heard to this and your previous question was at a QandA with Dr. Daniel J. Levitin. His answer was to a question "Is there any music that can make everyone upset or unhappy?" His answer was that in all his research the only music that can make someone upset or unhappy, was music the listener didn't like. It's 100 percent listener preference. The same was true for music a person did like. Unfortunately, the only way we could find out if Beethoven, Chopin, or the Beatles like the music is to ask them. I'm sure we'll find both support and disdain from the music community on AI generated music. Time will tell if there is a major preference on either side.
Dr. Levitin has some really interesting research on music, but also has some great easier to read books for those of us without a neuroscience degree. My favorite is called this is your brain on music. The world in 6 songs was also a great read.