Klarinet Archive - Posting 000179.txt from 2001/01

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] Computer Composes....
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:17:30 -0500

Anne Lenoir may be interested in this.

One human plays jazz trumpet, and a Mac computer program listens to
the trumpet and generates several parts of 'improvised' jazz
accompaniment. The trumpeter will bring his hardware to your party:

http://www.it.edu/~jab/genjam.html

The audio samples at this web site are streamed MP3 (I think?), and
WebTV can't keep pace. Thus I hear one-second snatches of music,
interrupted by one or two seconds of silence -- not the ideal listening
conditions. Overall, the music sounds unimaginative to me, but it
isn't offensive. I've listened to only one of the five or six samples.

For a more encompassing look at what's going on, see the January 2001
issue of Discover Magazine.

Cheers,
Bill

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