Tech Closeup: Music Professor

Is it Mozart or Professor David Cope? Many of the world's experts can't tell. See how this music professor uses his own software to make beautiful music.

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[reynouts]

Very cool, David Cope is a man with great ideas!

But the thing that this software can't cope for are the changes of a componist. Bach composed different music/style when he was 15vs25vs35. This music can only be in this scope, not predict what Bach would make if he turned 60. That would be an interesting addition, evolution.

[danielemanuelb]

Why make fake "Mozart" works when there are so many beautiful unplayed works by his contemporaries? There is so much great music that just doesn't get played because it doesn't bear the "Mozart Brand Name".

[WhiteDragon103]

I'm all for computers working alongside humans in the same status as musicians. You people just have to get off your high horse.

[ferdo621]

why the rage? After all music is mathematics, computer are experts at that...then no wonders they would produce good music. "But computers have no souls and creativity and we do". Do we really? Computers run our lives so why can't they HELP us to create music? Cope is not saying that his programm is going to eliminate composers at all. He says that his software is a tool for him. Either way I don't mind computers creating music and I am musician myself too.

[toxictype]

is there some sourcecode available for free somewhere?

[musicalidea]

@CBIRResearcher I agree completely. The examples of "Mozart" provided in this video lack, in my opinion, the cadence patterns and sustained notes of typical Mozart piano works...it gets the sequence styles, accented passing tones and secondary dominants well, but misses a lot of other idiosyncrasies.

[CBIRResearcher]

I would have preferred to have listened to the examples in a blind test. Everything I've heard from Cope sofware's sounded cute but never impressive. His "Mozart" sounds like a parody of Mozart. But I can't tell if I am being prejudiced.

[lollolllolllll]

No wonder classical music is so damn boring, by and large.

[jin12345678]

the compositions sound exactly like what they are. amalgams of styles that amount to not very much.

[charmingemily]

yea maybe we could email david cope to ask if he doesn that :)

it cost about 150 US dollars to customize a piece (accordihng to his website) and i'm still considering abt getting one

i'd certainly pay for a combine piece