I recently read three distinct legal definitions of "art" have developed (in German courts at least). The details are interesting but the key notion is that in the strictest sense, art is an expression of emotions, so in some sense, this isn't music. Jaringly in this definition, the expression must be recognizable. Of course that's debatable and I don't mean to review the different philosophies. The only insight is that it depends and whether something elicites emotions or not is subjective. It's a useful attempt at a definition to differentiate intention and accident. Edit: Actually watching it now I have to say it's pretty cool and I wonder how much human input was given to control and curate the creation. NN synths over wavetables or granular synthesis are actual instruments one can play, for comparison. And I hold that whatever AI generates, it's still due to the authors.
> How does "100s of Terabytes
It's more than a lifetime.
If a minute of music is 1mb in mp3, then that's a whoopin n x 100 x 1'000'000 minutes. With n=1, that's over a million albums.
Even if the algorithm works with uncompressed pcm data, the ten times difference can be made up for by the n factor.
I recently read three distinct legal definitions of "art" have developed (in German courts at least). The details are interesting but the key notion is that in the strictest sense, art is an expression of emotions, so in some sense, this isn't music. Jaringly in this definition, the expression must be recognizable. Of course that's debatable and I don't mean to review the different philosophies. The only insight is that it depends and whether something elicites emotions or not is subjective. It's a useful attempt at a definition to differentiate intention and accident. Edit: Actually watching it now I have to say it's pretty cool and I wonder how much human input was given to control and curate the creation. NN synths over wavetables or granular synthesis are actual instruments one can play, for comparison. And I hold that whatever AI generates, it's still due to the authors.
> How does "100s of Terabytes
It's more than a lifetime.
If a minute of music is 1mb in mp3, then that's a whoopin n x 100 x 1'000'000 minutes. With n=1, that's over a million albums.
Even if the algorithm works with uncompressed pcm data, the ten times difference can be made up for by the n factor.