Music does not exist until the moment it is played.
Therefore you need the performance to create art out of a composition.
Computers can not create art.
If the composer writes music that is not even playable by himself, then this music is never played by a human.
Therefore a soul to soul communication to the listener is impossible.
I do not doubt that.
But to return to the original point, a good instrument has a soul, as a good musician has.
My digital-Kawai does not have one, my analog Hofmann has.
My musical skills have nothing to do with that.
No it is not. There is no orchestra.
There is an context less, static description of tones, called sheet music or MIDI.
These description gets transformed to music whenever a musician plays it or to a set of soulless notes if a computer plays it.
I have a Kawai MP10 digital Piano and an old hand made analog Hofmann piano.
If I play for example just the last Chord (6 Notes) of Chopin Prelude op. 28/4 on the Hofmann the music goes deep through every nerve.
Nothing comparable happens on the Kawai even with very good speakers.
The problem lies in the context.
If we speak to each other we take human context into account. So does a musical interpret. It is just another medium. Music instead of words.
A computer does not understand human context.
This has already be proven by Weizenbaum with his program Eliza.
If the Computer does not understand emotion, he does not understand how to create music.
There is no possibility to formalize music exactly, so that a computer can play it accordingly. I doubt that this will ever be possible because a true artist takes human context into account in his performance. So there is no static formalization of music.
The only solution would be that the composer plays live on the computer. But an instrument that can not be played by humans is useless in this situation.
No soul, is not imprecision.
It is the expression of humans feelings in form of variation of duration, velocity, loudness.
For example speed in music is like speed in breathing.
You are not breathing with the same speed all the time.
It depends on the context.
If you are in a hurry you breathe fast and short.
If you sigh you breathe deep and slow.
An interpret has to understand the emotions that should be transported.
These emotions are unfortunately not sufficiently presentable in MIDI files or music notation.
As Mahler said the essence of music is not in the sheet.
Therefore a computer can not reproduce the essence of music.
A human interpretation of sheet music is a 3 tier soul transformation. Composer - Interpret - Listener.
Computer played music has an digital filter that eliminates a lot of soul in between.
Music notation is only a recipe for making music. Playing the recipe is not making music.
Handmade Pianos have souls.
The soul of the technician that built it.
This is why the best Pianos like Bösendorfer and Steinways are still built manually.
As a pianist I do not understand the purpose of music that is not playable by humans.
In my understanding music is a communication method between human souls. A computer has no soul, likewise Black MIDI "music".
Actually commuting with the bicycle makes me more happy. Because it combines several of his positive points (exercise, be outside etc.) and avoids the stress of driving a car in heavy traffic.
This is not theoretical.
Ground water is contaminated due to pesticides.
Small farmers are loosing there farms and income because of the economics of scale and competition from food industries.
Farmers are getting dependent on foreign companies and policies.
Organic food tastes much better.
The number of known varieties is decreasing and with it change and healthy diversity.
The soil is exhausted.
Rain forest is cleared.
Well if you name someone a friend you have talked to 3 hours and you are sharing FB links with, than you have a totally different understanding of the meaning of the word "friend" than me.
It is always a failure to interpolate the future linear from now on.
History was never linear.
It is more like waves between extremes. Therefore my estimate would be a new Biedermeier period.
You obviously did not study history. Look up Germanys history (Nazis, Stasi) if you want a picture of what a gov't can do with you or your children.
3 x 1h exercises a week during 50 years is approx. a year lifetime. It is likely that if you do this you add more than one healthy year to your lifetime. Therefore exercises are saving life time.