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I've been wondering how long it would be until web sites like this started showing up, where you can listen to automatically generated music on demand.

Hopefully they keep improving until they make the best human composers look mediocre, despite being millions of times faster. Unbounded amounts of new high quality low cost music? Yes please.

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Have you seen DarwinTunes?

(http://darwintunes.org/)

Nope. Pretty interesting, though. Will read about it more.

Just checked it out, very interesting concept. But from what I heard the music doesn't seem to be evolving much!

Even better, this could be a very good way to permanently kill RIAA -- and because tech like this can't really be made illegal and requires no special permission, ingrediences or tools, there is nothing at all they can do about it.

We still haven't really solved the problem of getting a digital piano to sound anything like a Steinway Concert Grand. Even if we could replace artistic expression with algorithm in this instance, the instrument sound itself has miles to go as well, and may well never be replicated with the precision that a true piano has.

Have you heard of Pianoteq? http://www.pianoteq.com/

I've heard it a few times. I like the sound a lot, but I know a few artists who still won't use it.

My point is similar, but not exactly the same. The best human composers will still be the best. However, the other 90% may be replaced by computers. Or, computers may generate some "skeletons", which real composers can use and enrich.

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