I thought it was neat for a few seconds, but then it got stale really quickly.

But then I listened to the original (the track used to train the network) and realized the problem: the network only knows how to write one song. What you hear on SoundCloud is the equivalent of giving someone a 5 paragraph essay, and then telling them to write a 10,000 word paper using only sentences contained in that essay.

Supposing that this program can accept more than 1 song in its training data, I expect it could produce really interesting stuff.

I wonder what T.S. Eliot would think of this? Where it would fall between tradition and the individual talent?[1] He discusses how a poet ( or musician ) takes notions and feelings that a reader ( or listener ) all ready know and experience and combines it in new ways to lead the reader ( or listener ) to experience new feelings they haven't experienced yet. And, in T.S. Eliot case this was point of transcendental poetry, to go beyond. Or, Rainer Maria Rilke on what is art. To him [2] art is the reflection of the experience. Go out into the world, live, and that is the base of the art. There is a connectedness to the shared suffering experienced listening to jazz. I don't experience it in this music.

[1] http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html

[2] http://www.carrothers.com/rilke1.htm