Ryan wrote:

Bob Cain wrote in message ...

You aren't really defining an analysis, or even the features
you would like extracted and cataloged. "Every possible way
an instrument can be played" has no meaning until you very
specifically give it that. It is what my high school
writing teacher called a glittering generality. I'm sorry
if that is a bit brutal but so was she. :-)

Yes, If I was writing for another audience I would have to adress this
more specifically. But you know what I'm getting at. I don't want to
post a billion word technical rubrick.

:-) Aw, give it a shot.

How would the subjective characteristics that your brain is
very good at discerining be algorithmically characterized
and what would be the form of the data the analysis
produced?

What would be in these data sets.

What math?

Approximate it with what?

Hell man, these are the questions I came looking for the anwsers to.
You were supposed to answer these!

I hope you understand that my intent was to point out that
these aren't solved problems. There aren't even glimmers on
the horizon. You are defining a musical AI with an awesome
intelligence, processing capability and prodigous memory.

If you were to take this to a prospective Ph.D. advisor as
an area for a thesis, he'd look at you in amazement, shake
his head and, if he was kind, try to help you find one
little corner of it that might yield productive results if
you tugged on it for a few years.

There are people thinking and working on these kinds of
problems but I don't know where they congregate.

Viola!

What, you want to do all this synthesis with a single
instrument? :-)

lol
How is it spelled? Voiola?

:-) Voila!


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein