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Originally Posted by Chris
That is debatable. Personally, I didn't just find the computer generated track bad, I found it UNBEARABLE. I had to turn it off.
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I think the problem here is that a computer program is trying to imitate a human composer. In this aspect computers will generally fail, or at least they still do now (even though the track posted here was quite an impressive start). But as nhomas has said, where it gets interesting is when a computer composes
as a computer not a fake human.
I've heard pieces composed by computer that don't hide the fact that they were created automatically at all and sounded amazing. Not human, not
directly emotional maybe, but very original, with a very unique sound that I had never heard before.
In my opinion, the greatest advantage in composition a computer has over a human is the complete lack of shame. A computer will not hesitate to create results that a human composer would maybe not dare to write down, because it might sound too clumsy/naive/blunt. But sometimes it's in this sort of bluntness and rawness that the greatest originality lies.
The fact that the computer doesn't compose emotionally doesn't mean the effect such a piece can have on me isn't emotional. It's like looking at flowers, which also aren't emotional or "created with heart and soul", but still can make us happy.
Speaking of flowers and computer-written music, this is an example of music composed by a computer, which shows what computers can produce when a good composer programs them:
Orchidae Ordinariae by Clarence Barlow