Writer and musician David Was introduces a composer who has developed a computer system that plays along with a human musician. The computer matches the musician's improvisations with riffs of its own ...
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity. By Miguel Salazar David Cope, a composer ...
Curtis Roads was barely out of high school in 1970, playing music in the metro area surrounding the University of Illinois, a pioneering center of computer music. He wasn’t a student, but through a ...