Text created by computer software isn't real text. :rolleyes2Originally Posted by Yamaneko
[q=eestlinc] creating using computer software, or created by a computer programmed to write music?[/q]In either case, I believe a fair amount of original creativity is required. I've been creating instruments using Csound for my class using different methods of synthesis. Doesn't that require creativity? I can use a MIDI sequencer to arrange my compositions. The compositional creative element is still there.
What Yamaneko probably intends to say is that a melodic line or a rhythm created by a computer using mathematical algorithms isn't creative. But then again, doesn't the programmer of the algorithm have to decide what codes to use? That's essentially all Csound is - mathematical formulation of music. How is that any different from the rules that Bach went by to write his fugues?
The only instance I can think of a person not getting credit for a computer-driven composition is a professor at UCSC, David Cope, who has created a database program to apply rules used by classical composers to an extensive collection of musical phrases to finish their unfinished works (he did one for Tchaikovsky, I think). The computer software was given credit for finishing the composition, and at first would not be played by symphonies for that reason.
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