Could music be reduced by artificial intelligence to “syntactic pattern and pattern alone”?
If so, does this mean music is a lot shallower than we ever thought? That the human soul/mind is a lot shallower than we ever thought?
Douglas Hofstadter discusses these issues here with reference to David Cope’s Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI) software. For music generated from EMI in the style of Bach and Chopin, click here.
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