Music is (dis)harmonies over rythmic patterns. There isn't anything inherently artistic about humans that computers can't replicate with time even the ability to compose an original song. That is besides the lives of humans and their appearance and history which is important but not the only factor.
The irony is that musicians are actually striving for, but failing at, reaching the perfection level that computers have.
And so for computers to sound more human like they have algorithms that make them more "sloppy"
What composition algorithms lack is not the ability to compose like humans but a life that will give them angels and a story.
Then again a lot of music is really formulaic anyway and computers are used for most of it. There is nothing in a few years that will hinder some sort of computer star to be born. But it's probably never going to connect with us the same way another human can. Not for now at least.
I think that's a good example of what I'm saying - just because you don't understand the details doesn't mean professional musicians and composers don't have much deeper insight into music than you do.
If you think music is [list of numbers] that can be made more "human" with a bit of timing randomisation, then of course it's all perfectly straightforward.
In reality there's rather more happening.
>What composition algorithms lack is not the ability to compose like humans but a life that will give them angels and a story.
No, the music basically sucks as music. The number of people willing to listen to it voluntarily without being paid to - usually as students or academics - is vanishingly small.
The story part only becomes relevant after that problem is solved.
And while it's true that music is formulaic, it's also true that computer music hasn't yet worked out how to copy all the details of the formulas - never mind produce original and memorable new formulas from scratch.
The best formula copier is probably Cope's EMI, and that sounds exactly like what it is - a slightly confused cut-and-paste cliche machine, not a human composer with a point to make.
Music becomes meaningful in the listeners mind, and the things that make it meaningful is both that it's formulaic (structure) and whatever the performer instills in the listenter.
The irony is that musicians are actually striving for, but failing at, reaching the perfection level that computers have.
And so for computers to sound more human like they have algorithms that make them more "sloppy"
What composition algorithms lack is not the ability to compose like humans but a life that will give them angels and a story.
Then again a lot of music is really formulaic anyway and computers are used for most of it. There is nothing in a few years that will hinder some sort of computer star to be born. But it's probably never going to connect with us the same way another human can. Not for now at least.