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Comment by avodonosov | Hacker News Reader

Yes, in short the music doesn't have sense - there is no story in it, or some message. But anyway, that's impressive that the network has generated this music.

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Why can't it just be the story of a random walk through classical-music-space?

It can of course. The same way I can just produce random noise and say it is music (avant-garde), and those who don't like just understand nothing in art.

Or more illustrative analogy: if it was generating text instead of music, and produced a sequence of words - some unfinished sentences, or maybe even complete sentences, maybe even sharing subjects (names) sometimes between sentences. But the whole text does not deliver any story. But you say: "maybe it's a story, where all these words follow each other". Well, maybe, for someone. Maybe it is anvant-garde poetry.

But for me this opus has no real meaning.

Sort of like 'Finnegan's Wake' :)

Finnegan's Wake is packed-full of self-referential meta-data and has a highly coherent structure.

In this sense, it's relevant to the discussion because it may appear to have been created by Markov chains whereas in fact it's intelligently molded and makes (more and more interesting) sense from the many perspectives you start to have as you spend your life with it.

Excellent project here, which even from reading the first page you'll have an a-ha moment: http://www.wakeinprogress.com/2010/10/introduction-to-charac...

Because for it to be that you'd need a workably good - if not fully complete - definition of classical-music-space. And this clearly doesn't have that.

Because no message is not a message. Not even a medium.

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