<:> Latest Cope
Cope has tended to apply methods to fine-tuned databases containing
works of noted composers (Mozart, Stravinsky, Chopin, Bach,
Beethoven...)
- Good news: output can sound just like new versions of the
`real thing'
- Bad news: the compositions can sound highly derivative.
Because Cope wants to produce good music (and feels that his system
just does what he would do but quicker) he views this reaction as a
problem.
Now aims to persue similar methods but without using `historical
databases.'
New system to be called `Emily Howell'
But has he over-reacted? The problem was not the use of databases as
such, it was the fact that he applied the methods in such a
composer-specific way.