{"id":882,"date":"2010-02-25T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/?p=882"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:05:15","slug":"emmy-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/2010\/02\/25\/emmy-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz emeritus professor\/composer David Cope created an artificially intelligent composer &#8220;Emmy&#8221; (Experiments in Musical Intelligence EMI) years ago. After facing a lot of criticism and praise from musicians and scientists, he decided to move Emmy to his trash folder because Emmy&#8217;s existence raised deep questions in regards to the originality of music composition if it could be created by a Cyborg composer.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If a machine could write a Mozart sonata every bit as good as the originals, then what was so special about <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.classicalarchives.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classicalarchives.com\/mozart.html#tvf=tracks&amp;tv=about\" target=\"_blank\">Mozart<\/a>? And was there really any soul behind the great works, or were Beethoven and his ilk just clever mathematical manipulators of notes?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After many years, David Cope has created the Emmy offspring &#8220;Emily Howell&#8221; which apparently creates original modern compositions that are quite good. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/culture-society\/triumph-of-the-cyborg-composer-8507\/\">here<\/a> to read more about this and to hear some sound samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz emeritus professor\/composer David Cope created an artificially intelligent composer &#8220;Emmy&#8221; (Experiments in Musical Intelligence EMI) years ago. After facing a lot of criticism and praise from musicians and scientists, he decided to move Emmy to his trash folder because Emmy&#8217;s existence raised deep questions in regards to the originality of music composition if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}