[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music
From: |
Kieren MacMillan |
Subject: |
Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:48:59 -0400 |
Hi David,
> This day has more-or-less arrived. Whether we like it or not, most of
> the music we hear in our daily lives, e.g., radio spots, commercials,
> tv-shows and ever-increasingly, major motion pictures are filled with
> music generated by computers, albeit mostly through samples generated
> by humans, but nevertheless, they are rendered by a computer.
I think that's somewhat different than what I was discussing: I'm talking about
WATCHING computers (or robots) PLAY music, not listening to music that was
played/generated/rendered [to any degree] by computers.
Case in point: my friend Roger created and programmed McBlare, a robotic
bagpipe player (see <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/mcblare/>).
Am I intellectually fascinated by Roger's work? Absolutely.
Is it stimulating and exciting to watch McBlare play music? Absolutely.
Would I rather watch a human (e.g., my dad) play the bagpipes? Absolutely.
Will there come a day in my lifetime when I would honestly -- emotionally --
prefer to watch a robot play an instrument rather than a human? I don't believe
so. [But I *do* believe there is a chance that such a day will come eventually.]
> One thing a robot, or any type of computer generated music will never
> replace is the simple gratification of actually playing
I would go one step further: I constantly -- and happily -- use
computers/robots/programs to do certain things [almost always faster, and quite
often "better"] than I can, in part so that I am free to spend more time and
energy doing certain other things [which may or may not be things computers to
do faster or "better" than I].
To wit: I use a boiling-water dispenser, in part so that I am free to spend
more time drinking and enjoying my tea; I use email for 99% of my
correspondence, in part so that I am free to spend more time using a pen and
stationery to write meaningful long-hand letters to my close friends; and I
engrave my music with Lilypond, in part so that I am free to spend more time at
the piano with a pencil and manuscript paper rather than being forced to have a
computer compose for me.
Other people make other choices, obviously. I just think it's unfortunate if
you stop doing something you love simply because there's a computer or robot or
program that does it "better" or "faster" than you do.
> ... but that's me. As evidenced by computer gaming, the notion of
> social interaction with a computer has long since been upon us.
+1
Cheers,
Kieren.
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, (continued)
- RE: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, James Lowe, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Kieren MacMillan, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Graham Percival, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Kieren MacMillan, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, David Kastrup, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Kieren MacMillan, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, David Santamauro, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, David Kastrup, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music,
Kieren MacMillan <=
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Michael Ellis, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Kieren MacMillan, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Mark Knoop, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Graham Percival, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Dmytro O. Redchuk, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Marc Mouries, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Graham Percival, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Kieren MacMillan, 2011/03/17
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Dmytro O. Redchuk, 2011/03/18
- Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music, Graham Percival, 2011/03/18