Hallo, Chris Cannam hat gesagt: // Chris Cannam wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Beat and rhythm detection also is a hot topic for many years in the > > academic music scene as it's a necessary prerequisite to let a > > computer play along with human performers, ideally in real time. > > I actually find this goal more distasteful than the one Fons is objecting to. > > I can understand why people are interested in automatic accompaniment, > but mangling human-made music to fit a specific timing map seems like > a more proper goal to me -- "manufactured" being somehow preferable to > "simulated". (I think this may be an "uncanny valley" situation -- if > you haven't met this term before, look it up.) I know this term from research on human-like robots. Anyway it's not just "automatic accompaniment" as in "Band in a Box" that I'm referring to, but the use of a computer to do what it can do better than any human, namely carrying out algorithms for complicated processes designed by a human. Also experimentation with a computer in this regard can give valuable insights into how the human mind experiences music. In the end, the computer, like the book, is a tool to help humans think. A good introduction to what I mean is Robert Rowe's book "Machine Musicianship" by MIT Press. Ciao -- Frank _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
