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Re:Apple Music Classical by UncleMeat on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:17AM (#35341491)
You probably will be able to get imitation in the not too distant future. But a world where we just listen to imitations of 50s and 60s derivatives of bebop is a sad one. The most loved musicians are ones who are pushing things forward and don't just imitate Trane endlessly or whatever.

AI would need to be able to do something like create The Bad Plus in 1995. That's an even bigger mountain to climb.

Re:Apple Music Classical by MavisBacon on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:35AM (#35342759)
What about imitating Coltrane’s Classic Quartet? That would be INSANE
Re:Apple Music Classical by UncleMeat on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:42AM (#35357995)
I don't think it is completely unreasonable in the future. But I'm personally good with what we've got in this style. We don't need another A Love Supreme. We've already got it. It was fun when Both Directions at Once was discovered, but it isn't like it was something that we needed in 2018.

People will still want to create their sound, and that'll lead to new music over time that isn't just imitation.

Re:Apple Music Classical by an_aparallel on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:56AM (#35353591)
We have the tech to be licensed (melodyne or zynaptiq for the polyphonic pitch data extraction), python libs for the analysis. Just needs the brains to execute it at this point...and someone to pay for this kind of compute