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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:59:45AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

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> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Niels Mayer  wrote:

> > music making involves fitting together "tiles" (musical passages,

> > patterns, etc) that are highly constrained in terms of "geometry"

> > (pitch, key, time-signature, BPM, starting and ending pitches or

> > chords).

>

> but i would submit that if you offered this description of making music to

> musicians who play instruments or sing, they would find it unrecognizable.

Actually, I think most musicians would recognise this concept (though perhaps

not when explained with too technical nomenclature), especially those who ever

dabbled in composition, improvisation or even just playing together with

someone else. Generally, a 'pleasing' piece contains enough 'structure' (chord

progressions, chorus/verse/chorus, melody line vs counter-melody, even 'genre'

in a way, etc) for the structure to be recognisable (instead of dissonant and

random), yet not so much that it'd get predictable/boring.
It doesn't seem far-fetched to use a computer to recognise (impro-visor) and/or

apply (sibelius/finale plugins etc) those structures - at least to some extent.

How far this envelope can be pushed and integrated into a composers' workflow -

well - that's just interesting :).
Arnout

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