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The Formula Of Music

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David Cope has written software that will take in a composer's work and spit out stuff in the same style. It's eerily good. It works basically by markov chains.

Also there are all sorts of serial techniques out there.

I think was MB was trying to say is that it's easier to define "bad" music than "good" music so we could make a machine that writes random compositions then spits out the "bad" ones leaving only the good. I think.....

There are no prime number formulas that can generate all the prime numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis

David Cope has written software that will take in a composer's work and spit out stuff in the same style. It's eerily good.

Where could I get that software? It would save me a lot of work :thumbsup: ...

Where could I get that software? It would save me a lot of work :thumbsup: ...

google 'david cope', he has some of his software for dl, but they're in the form of LISP scripts, so unless you have experience working with those....

...they're in the form of LISP scripts, so unless you have experience working with those....

Never mind. Learning that from scratch will take me more time than actually writing a pastiche :toothygrin: .

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