Comment Re:Musicianship is still the key (Score 2, Informative) 137
I saw demos of continuator at CSL Paris and a concert of Bernard Lubat (excellent french jazzman/improviser) *and* Continuator (operated by its creator, Francois Pachet) at the IRCAM last year.
The concert was very good, very similar to a dialog between like-minded musicians in fact. And the word dialog was carefully chosen here, as it was really a musical exchange between the human and the program. If people like Lubat (and other excellent jazzmen etc.) say that this application can create good music, I tend to trust them (and my ears/eyes) more than you, sorry.
And this program was not developed to "create new musicians", but rather to *play with* other musicians. The first sentence of the continuator's user manual is : "The Continuator is a system which learns musical styles, and with which you can play interactively."
I think you (and others) took this for what it is not...
It's a great piece of software made by musicians (i.e. people who love music) for other musicians, not for greedy corporate bastards :)
The concert was very good, very similar to a dialog between like-minded musicians in fact. And the word dialog was carefully chosen here, as it was really a musical exchange between the human and the program. If people like Lubat (and other excellent jazzmen etc.) say that this application can create good music, I tend to trust them (and my ears/eyes) more than you, sorry.
And this program was not developed to "create new musicians", but rather to *play with* other musicians. The first sentence of the continuator's user manual is : "The Continuator is a system which learns musical styles, and with which you can play interactively."
I think you (and others) took this for what it is not...
It's a great piece of software made by musicians (i.e. people who love music) for other musicians, not for greedy corporate bastards
