April 29, 2010

Robot musician improvises, jams with humans



Like any jazz impresario, Shimon can listen to music, analyze its structure and improvise with other musicians. But instead of lifelong musical training, Shimon relies on complex algorithms to identify tempo, beats, chord progressions and melodic dissonance and consonance.

CNN

1 comment:

  1. this begs the question- does technical proficiency take the place of soul?

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