Like Photography Displaced Naturalistic Or Realism Painting – Computational Music Is Going To Transform Music

Music At A Crossroads

I have little doubt that like computational photography is going to revolutionize conventional digital photography computational music is going to do the same for music. In my opinion, popular music (including classical, jazz, pop music etc.) has become kind of stale. Of course, we still like to listen to it, but I believe, we are about to enter a new era in music. I also have no doubt that somewhere on this planet unconventional musicians are already experimenting …

Too Excessive Copyrights Protecting Modern Music

As I see it, there is at least one major hindrance and that is excessive copyright rights which almost exclusively protect the music created over the last 100 years or so. Without these excessive copyrights contemporary or modern music could be more easily stored in computer systems and remixed or whatever to please current generations of listeners. New styles of music could be fused and much more.

I wrote a separate blog on excessive intellectual property rights.

Music X-Ray

In an article published on 7/27/2012 in the MIT Technology Review titled “Can Creativity be Automated?” by Christopher Steiner it reads that the music industry is beginning to rely on computer algorithms to select artists & repertoire for the next big hit. The company behind these algorithms: Music X-Ray.

Well, if such algorithms are capable to select music that suits our sweat spots could such algorithms not also compose music in such a way that it creates catchy tunes or songs?

Same article also mentions Professor David Cope of UC Santa Cruz who created algorithms that compose classical music.