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[microsound] artificial listeners



> "artificial listeners"

i can think of more or less two ways to approach this:

1) the more egocentric one: design listeners so that they are adapted to
the music, rather than the usual contrary.  doomed to failure for what
i'm concerned but it could be a fun exercise if not taken too seriously.

2) listeners as responders: how does the listener react to music,
especially experimental?  find new ways to approach the coding into
concepts of music as it is received rather than as it is sent.

the second approach brings a few ideas to mind...

~ with speech recognition software being made with varying degrees of
success, would it help to build music appreciation software?  not so
much to force a certain opinion in the machine, but to give it enough
rope for it to come up with a logical response in terms of aesthetics
alone.

~ if music is input to the software, could it then be instructed to
respond with new musical patterns which are coherent in terms of the
context?  (i.e. so long as there is an semantic relation between the
question & the answer)

~ if we don't want to get into the tech side of this we can put
ourselves in the composer's pants: how would music be built if it were
to be understood by artificial listeners?  how many degrees of
complexity (tone, layer, etc.) could it contain?  what would be the
purpose: ambience, stimulation, upliftment, puzzle?

or maybe i got the entire concept wrong but those seems as interesting
ideas to explore as any.

~ david
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