http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_RyodnisVvU&e

It's a cute little automnous robot who's only want in life is to go round looking for things to play drums on.

:lovies3d:

I want that existence.

Wall-E!

Haha great thing -it rocks

Nice

i wonder how longer before ai creates better songs

just imagine a program randomly creating almost infinite melodies with a phi ratio

humans would only be used as test subjects to see to which tune they dance more

Hehe I loved the bit with the glass cup, that thing is great

^^^ I think humans will always be writing music, some artificialy writen music may be made (Dance Music anyone?) but nothing can replace the creativity and emotion of a human.

How quickly the topic degenerates.

Humans have already used all of the possible melodies possible with just 12 notes. The secret these days is to use them in a combination that people don't recognise While it would be possible for a machine to do it, the lack of soul would make them all sound samey and flat. Sort of like the UK album chart

aye Dajmin, in this case from about post #5 onwards. I enjoyed that, there's a few sequels too, although dont follow links as far as I did or you'll end up watching youtubes of Marble Madness for the NES, and believe me thats's painful.

I continue to be ever cynical about artificial intelligence in any 'complex' form, but the simple things like this are truly genius. It's an inspirational little robot.

Now anyone fancy making one that looks like a field mouse and is remote controlled but has a really loud dragon roar so I can teach my cats to stop trying to bring them home.

Quote from lerts :

i wonder how longer before ai creates better songs

just imagine a program randomly creating almost infinite melodies with a phi ratio

humans would only be used as test subjects to see to which tune they dance more

Robots are taking the control! WHAAH!

Yeah that's true.. There will be robotic tunes in future

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How quickly the topic degenerates.

Humans have already used all of the possible melodies possible with just 12 notes. The secret these days is to use them in a combination that people don't recognise

Harmony is a lot more complicated than that, it's just that western pop music rarely uses more than a tiny fraction of the combinations available. That's why if you ask just about any guitarist to play you a Bdim chord they'll stare at the fingerboard for five minutes trying to figure out how they can fake it.

Occasionally you get a successful pop musician who can slip complex and unlikely harmonic structures under the public's radar and into hit records, but those people are rare. Paul McCartney was especially good at it, as was Ray Davies.