The basic parameters of music are encoded in any MIDI.All the notes are there, they have only to be manipulated into an imaginative interpretation.Basically, with technology, it should become easy to have the exact timings and dynamics you want.It's basically true that from a mechnical standpoint, computers understand music!
Excellent analogy. Don't take me wrong, I do also have a passion for the speed as well. However there are somethings that MIDIs just can't do and that is better a performance, except for the minor details. Speed of course is extremely important, but it need not be the dominating factor in music, a concept that Opus(Leonidas here) doesn't seem to get.
Computers will, with increasing technology, learn what musical relations are pleasing to the human ear, but never get to the level of our own imaginations, true.It would be like the monkeys typewriter shakespeare dealio.Timing, however subtle, is digitizable also.Sure, it needs a natural human input to tell it what sounds good, but it can do more than our bodies can/
Yes, and it feels much better driving that fast, from a musical perspective.
Humans are naturally physically inferior to other animals, it is the brain development that sets us apart.With our brains, we have created things to overcome our shortcomings, it is believed that humans will not really physically advance in the future, we may waste away physically and become mental beings, much like krang.The fun in music, is music, do not forget that, this whole topic is about musical possibilities.
What does that have to do with anything. Of course humans differ to other species.That is absurd. First of all, what do you mean by "physical"? Do you mean the muscular composition and "girth" of the body, or do you mean the brain also. First of all, the brain will always keep on advancing as we use it all the time. Our physical status will not decrease because again we use it all the time. Yes, if a person spends all his time in a car, or spends all his time sitting in front of a TV, then naturally his physical status is going to dibilitate, and the following generations as well. And ironically, this is due to the technology that was supposed to help us. This proves that although technology can be used for some things, it can only destroy us if we rely too much on it.
Brains, limited (as you think) they are, still decide what we like or not, not the computer.
I think our bodies are more limited than our brains.
Basically, with technology, it should become easy to have the exact timings and dynamics you want.
It's basically true that from a mechnical standpoint, computers understand music!
Of course, you can make a midi from a score, but how does that sound? Really awful. Then beginn to patch this midi-file with velocity changes, duration changes, tempo changes etc. It gets more and more complicated and at the end, your real playing on the piano will sound much better than the elaborated midi file.
Computers don't do anything that people don't make them do.
So no more '1' or '0' decisions(lineair) but multidirectional.
Maybe they can, somewhere in the far future. But it would need a complete new type of computer wich works like our brains. So no more '1' or '0' decisions(lineair) but multidirectional.
Computers don't do anything that people don't make them do
I just think the technology can be great for people to realise their dream interpretations without having to slave over working on technique all their life, when it is most likely that they may never achieve what they want.
Suppose I write code to produce abstract art or compose music ( I have actually done both, albeit in a most elementary fashion, so I am acutely aware of the results). Now suppose I listen to and look at the products. Suppose further that they move me and strike me with an equal or greater intensity and sense of awareness of originality as their equivalent human produced specimens which I hear on CD and radio, or observe in an art gallery. What does this mean ?
I think we are at the beginning of one of most exciting eras of understanding of our own thought processes
Then I remembered MATLAB and its symbolic toolbox. This splendid contraption actually performs symbolic algebra and integration as a calculator performs arithmetic. What would happen if I instructed it to form both sides of various identities and try subtracting one from the other ? To cut a long story short, after a few seconds it produced a zero - proof !To me, as an older person, this is amazing, because ordinary household software has quietly and stealthily made inroads on the domain, not just of numeric calculation, which is wonderful enough, but on creative, heuristic symbolic manipulation. That is a digression, but it illustrates the necessity of questioning whether any mental process at all is exclusively human, at least in the functional sense.
I conjecture that very soon it will no longer seem anachronistic to speak of the "personality", even "genius" of an algorithm in the same way we speak of human composers. Exactly why this is repulsive to so many musicians has always been a complete mystery to me. Why does it matter ?
Today you are right. But don't forget:a) Computers are 50 years +- old but have in that time taken over the world, and their complexity still grows exponentially.
Imagine someone really sits down and puts some work into a program which has a number of tools - similar to graphics programs - to manipulate greater areas of a piece, in a more complex way, etc...we're already closer. Some other guy makes another program, and soon we have an industry
b) As already mentioned, it is already possible to manipulate the velocity of each note with a simple midi file - it's just too much work.
Nonsense. They aren't more complex at all. They certainly haven't taken over the world in any meaningful sense.
Writing a program to replicate a piano [or at least, given the typical way we have of processing audio, a recording of a piano] and writing software to play a score, is no more significant than someone sitting down at a piano, learning the piece and playing it.The computer is just a tool and if they amaze you with something they do, it's a human that did it..
but not because they have more RAM in their PC.
But you need the computer.
I safely can say this, and with confidence, that no you do not.
The dependence already exists in totality.Your daily life is not really of importance here, what you see or with what you work, even if you need to work much with computers and daily. Computers lay the foundations for our daily life, they make it possible. Everything we do goes from there, it's the frame for everything. That is total dependence.
Sure, it does provide help to look something up on the internet, but do we really depend on it?
you can hear his excitement and he starts hitting LOTS of wrong notes...and I love every chord: you can HEAR him burning on the inside with every messed-up chord. I wonder how to preproduce that?
Then come back to me when you have produced something on your computer even close to Gilels performance with his wrong notes.
GOD WHEN WILL YOU LEARN.