Pet_Sounds

No. A computer cannot be a billion times more powerful than a human brain. We haven't even come close to matching the brain yet, and IMO we never will.

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Janszoon

I think music will be unrealistic and not plan for retirement.

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nuke-tan

I'm not sure when the last actual instrument was created.
It sure would be interesting if something completely new was invented that wasn't a spin off of stringed / wind / percussion etc
A thought powered instrument perhaps? now that'd be groovy

Frownland

Well anything that you could do on an acoustic instrument you can record and alter to your taste, so you could do all that and more. There's nothing an acoustic instrument can do that a computer can't.

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Chula Vista

Dude. Really?

He's not just playing notes. He's feeding off of the whole thing. Watch his face throughout the song. It's maybe 50% notes and 50% emotionally feeding off of the note he just played. A computer will never be able to emotionally improv like Hedges does in that clip.

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Xurtio

Ok, but in terms of the physics, those nuances all come down to the shape of the attack, continual pitch shifts for bends, shape of the release and the sustain. It can all be described with one time-dependent variable.

With the right rule system or even supervised training on Hedges himself, an algorithm could generate such waveforms.

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GuitarBizarre

In this thread: Half of the people don't understand how computers work, and are falling back on "BUT EMOTION MAN! COMPUTERS CAN'T FEEL EMOTION!"

Nevermind that we've been considering the possibility of intelligent machines for decades and getting closer in a very constant way.

The other half are saying "Uh, you do realise the moment we establish a way to quantify emotion in a logical system, computers will be able to understand emotion and replicate it? Literally the drawback is that because we don't have a flawless understanding of brain chemistry and response to external stimuli, current approaches are limited to responding to broader and less specific inputs, but eventually we will hit the point where those approaches are refined and become viable, or we will hit the point where constructing a computerised simulation of brain activity during this act can be done in synchronicity with the act of running a musical output?"

It is entirely conceivable - in fact, likely - that once we understand the operation of the brain to the point we can simulate it's internal workings, we will actually be able to directly synthesise music from thoughts, bypassing the need for using a physical instrument or digital synthesizer. We, or our hypothetical brain simulation, will literally be able to THINK "I want a sound like this", and get it. In realtime. We will be able to THINK a wah pedal or a timpani being hit "just so" and get those timbre immediately without intervention by a third party system or an object.

Once that level of advancement arrives, or we even get CLOSE to it, computers will already be very much capable of emulating, imitating, and creating any musical form, including any part of that form which is improvisational or a response to outside stimulus.

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Frownland

The computer itself won't feel the emotion in the same as a guitar wouldn't, but who's to say the person using the computer or guitar can't feel emotion when creating music? Technology has advanced incredibly, I think that with the right programs and person at the keyboard you could translate emotion even through electronic means.

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Chula Vista

Disagree. The day a computer can supplant talent like Hedges, Mercury, Gilbert, or Buckley, is the day I will check out.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”