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Re: Yacht fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album

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Post by tortasaur » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 2:05 AM UTC

dejawu wrote: post #7

My understanding is that even humans don't fully know why neural nets are doing exactly what they're doing. If we were indeed able to just press a button and have an AI give us a finished track (which is not what YACHT did here), who should take credit for the track? I certainly don't think the human who trained the net deserves all the credit, right? That feels like if an artist's otherwise absent father gave them K…

The optimist in me wants to believe these quandaries will force us to reevaluate the assumptions behind our copyright system.

Re: Yacht fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album

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Post by yowlingcat » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 3:31 AM UTC

moomin wrote: post #10

yowlingcat wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember thinking about such a system a long time ago. In a theoretical sense, that seems really cool, but I'm not sure if the hardware is quite there yet. From what I can recall, practical brain-computer interfaces are still in their infancy, and not reliable enough to use even for simple binary interfaces. Otherwise, that would basically make a closed circuit for the palette generation part of this -- just let th…

Also, from an artistic standpoint, initial response isn’t everything.

That's true, but for me, it certainly is an important data point or signal. Part of how I've gotten a lot faster and productive is having the right judgment about when to tweak and when throw something or some part of a composition, arrangement or sound design away and just redo it from scratch when I don't think it's going in the right direction.

Re: Yacht fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album

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Post by Fjolsvith » Sun, Sep 01, 2019, 5:08 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #4

yowlingcat wrote: post #3

This is both very cool and goes along the lines of the way I imagined deep learning would advance the state of the art in songwriting. YACHT's got a special place in my heart for "Psychic City" which sounds like a lost child of Talking Heads, not to mention all the other great music they've made. Secondly, it's interesting how they used the tech to stretch their existing material: they basically notated their existin…

How about a system where music is generated by a computer and a person listens to it while a functional MRI scanner provides feedback to the algorithm?

An echo chamber?