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Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music
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Kieren MacMillan |
Subject: |
Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:55:16 -0400 |
Hi Graham,
> IMO, the world would be a better place if we were more precise in
> our musical judgements.
Fair enough.
> If you don't specify that something is a personal opinion, then "go objective
> or go home".
Some philosophers would say that every statement is subjective, even "The sun
rose today" or "I'm currently typing on a computer" -- it's just that it's
easier to convince other people that such subjective statements are "truth". ;)
> The easiest objective judgement is popularity -- or rather,
> "amount of CDs sold", "amount of tracks downloaded from a legal
> free music site", or even "amount of tracks downloaded from any
> source, including quasi-legal (i.e. not legal) and
> not-even-quasi-legal sources".
Yes, quantitative data is more objective than qualitative data.
> Judgements like "harmonic complexity" or "melodic construction"
> can be objective, but you need to specify which algorithm you're
> using to determine the harmonies (or melodic stuff). And then use
> that algorithm strictly. Which, for practical purposes, means
> using computer score analysis.
I like it!
> I think that the only objective judgement we can make is popularity.
Well, it's the easiest anyway.
> (or at least, in objective algorithms, using some constants that
> were derived from collecting listening data from hundreds of
> people in music psychology experiment -- that would be a good
> balance between completely subjective judgements of musicologists,
> and completely mathematical analyses)
+1.
Kieren.
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