Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music

[Patrick Horgan]

On 03/17/2011 07:15 AM, Marc Mouries wrote:
> This is intellectually interesting but the question is not "who 
> deserves to create good music?" but rather "who wants to listen to 
> music made by someone that does not practice?" and who wants to listen 
> to music played by a computer? Sure many times, nowadays, the 
> rendition of a computer playing is quite good but who cares? Art 
> conveys emotions which are the one thing that make us human and thus 
> should be played by human. What's the end goal of such system? Can you 
> describe in what is that helpful? Are we one day going to only listen 
> to robots playing music?
>
> >  Where *will* the limits be, or where *should* the limits be?
>
> Yes very good question. One thing that comes to mind is that I don't 
> want to arrive at a point where musician will be teaching computers to 
> play instead of learning to play themselves.
We're long past that point.  Many many pop and rock and hip hop 
keyboardists can't really play, i.e. if you asked them to play some 
sheet music or reproduce a particular song, they couldn't do it, but 
they can program loops and effects and assign them to keys and produce 
some excellent music.  Their instrument is the programming and their 
creativity and imagination.

Patrick