Check out Everything Is A Remix for a powerful exploration of these ideas and more, in 40 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ryPC8bxqE
Everybody borrows from everybody!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ryPC8bxqE
Everybody borrows from everybody!
I've since come to terms with the fact that everything is indeed a remix– so the best way to create good work is to consume as much high-quality work as possible, and then make as many remixes as you possibly can.
Higher quality input, broader range of inputs, maximum volume output (without too much judgement about what "quality" means with regards to output– you don't always know in advance what will work and what will not.)
Basically , a professor created an AI composer and he claims all great works are made by subconsciously splicing together bits of other works and a machine that does this can be truly creative.
Here it's imitating Mozart : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vctssFH-M5c
It's quite lacking in overall structure but there's definitely something interesting going on here.