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Evolectronica: survival of the funkiest
Earlier this blog brought you a story about possible developments in computer technology and music in the future. With increasing computer capabilities it might be possible one day the computer produces music that’s good by human standards. It was mentioned that new algorithms inspired by nature might be used for this, evolutionary techniques improving the [...]
Will we run out of new music?
Maybe this question sounds absurd to you. Maybe you think there’s no limit on new musical pieces that can be created. But this can’t be true, limitations on human hearing puts constraints on the number of possible sounds we can hear. Since not all sound is music, it follows that the number of all possible [...]
