the sad future of music

[pianistimo]

some things are really technically too advanced.  take for instance crazy j's guitar playing machine

www.me.gatech.edu/mechatronics_lab/Projects/Fall00/group3/photo.htm

there is also a robot somewhere in a link

www.zoho.nl.   click on english and then prototype.  i don't know if it can play the piano.

the robot comes with an accompanying magnetic base, which can be turned on or off, ensuring that thefigure stays in place no matter how precarious the position.  (the guy who built this robot just sold zoho artform 1-1 for more than $37,000. he's working on nos. 1-2 and 1-3.  i suppose that if his fingers worked, you could stretch them out for as wide of a reach as you wanted and snap a photo of your superior reach with your robot.

[Dazzer]

its not really a sad future cuz there really isn't any future. hahaha

anyway... meh its still midified.

[pianistimo]

true.  i'm not really complaining.  i find it kinda unique and facinating.  midi's do help with composition, and maybe these instruments playing by themselves are good for when we are tired and want to hear live music?  i could see turning on my guitar at night and asking it (using the clap on clap off method) to play my favorite bach suite.  or, asking the robot to go get me a drink of water and then play a tune on the piano.

[eithar]

yeah.......it can be good for many resons .....

but i think that to play piano on your own is such kinf of fun ..don't u think so?

[Derek]

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[chopintod]

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Yes, this has already been discussed.

Please see:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,11950.0.html

 

Terry

[Bob]

I imagine one day a robot will play nearly as good as a person.  They will get the movements down and produce the sounds.  At some point, a robot AI capable of "interpreting" the music and shaping lines. 

Band in a Box software can already mimic jazz improvisation.  There are many soloist "styles" that are imitating.  And it is scary.

What's to prevent something that could actually play an acoustic instrument and would be capable of "hearing" the sounds it produces?

I would think a human has something "human" and unique, but at some point I think a machine could be just as smart if not smarter and capable of emotion and all that.

[dinosaurtales]

Yes, this has already been discussed.

Please see:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,11950.0.html

 

Terry

Very funny. You know I hate links to prior posts!! Just ask Bernhard!