{"id":176,"date":"2010-02-26T04:56:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=176"},"modified":"2010-02-26T04:56:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:56:30","slug":"emily-howell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2010\/02\/emily-howell\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Howell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great arti\u00adcle on the two com\u00adput\u00aderised musi\u00adcal com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion sys\u00adtems built by David Cope<\/a>. There are some fan\u00adtas\u00adtic quotes through\u00adout, but my favourite:<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe atti\u00adtude, which he set\u00adtled on at a young age, is to \u201ctreat myself as if I\u2019m dead,\u201d so he won\u2019t affect how his work is received. \u201cIf you have to pro\u00admote it to get peo\u00adple to like it,\u201d he asks, \u201cthen what have you real\u00adly achieved?\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oth\u00ader choice quotes, such as<\/p>\n

\n

\n[In] an anthol\u00ado\u00adgy of debates about Cope\u2019s research, Hof\u00ads\u00adtadter wor\u00adries Emmy proves that \u201cthings that touch me at my deep\u00adest core \u2014 pieces of music most of all, which I have always tak\u00aden as direct soul-to-soul mes\u00adsages \u2014 might be effec\u00adtive\u00adly pro\u00adduced by mech\u00ada\u00adnisms thou\u00adsands if not mil\u00adlions of times sim\u00adpler than the intri\u00adcate bio\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal machin\u00adery that gives rise to a human soul.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

\n

\n\u201cAll the com\u00adput\u00ader is is just an exten\u00adsion of me,\u201d Cope says. \u201cThey\u2019re noth\u00ading but won\u00adder\u00adful\u00adly orga\u00adnized shov\u00adels. I wouldn\u2019t give cred\u00adit to the shov\u00adel for dig\u00adging the hole. Would you?\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

high\u00adlight the enor\u00admi\u00adty of the dis\u00adcon\u00adnect between Cope and his peers on the sub\u00adject of a machine\u2019s abil\u00adi\u00adty to affect human emo\u00adtion, of which the argu\u00adment does\u00adn\u2019t seem so much about the music hav\u00ading being \u201cwrit\u00adten by a machine\u201d, but a sub\u00adcon\u00adscious pseu\u00addo-intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal or spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal rejec\u00adtion of being emo\u00adtion\u00adal manip\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded by pure\u00adly man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtured mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal. Is it that we find human com\u00adposers (with their stock\u00adpile of neu\u00adroses and emo\u00adtion\u00adal invest\u00adment) pro\u00adduce art more enjoy\u00adable because of the rich fan\u00adta\u00adsy we sub\u00adcon\u00adscious\u00adly cre\u00adate about the gen\u00ade\u00adsis of their work? It\u2019s hard to donate emo\u00adtion\u00adal attach\u00adment when we know the author did\u00adn\u2019t, and it\u2019s not until we strip back that almost-famil\u00adial empa\u00adthet\u00adi\u00adcal require\u00adment that we realise how bizarre it is that we can\u2019t enjoy some\u00adthing pure\u00adly for how it affects us<\/em>. Of course with\u00adout that empa\u00adthy soci\u00adety would prob\u00ada\u00adbly collapse.<\/p>\n

Most of our time isn\u2019t spent cre\u00adat\u00ading, but reflect\u00ading on the gen\u00ade\u00adsis of oth\u00ader\u2019s cre\u00adativ\u00adi\u00adty, and I can under\u00adstand the effect that has upon enjoy\u00ading com\u00adput\u00aderised work if you believe a \u2018soul\u00adless\u2019 machine is gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading some\u00adthing from noth\u00ading. We aren\u2019t quite there yet, and I won\u00adder whether we\u2019ll be able to empathise with cre\u00adative com\u00adput\u00aders when they do<\/em> expe\u00adri\u00adence emo\u00adtions, sim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great arti\u00adcle on the two com\u00adput\u00aderised musi\u00adcal com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion sys\u00adtems built by David Cope. There are some fan\u00adtas\u00adtic quotes through\u00adout, but my favourite: The atti\u00adtude, which he set\u00adtled on at a young age, is to \u201ctreat myself as if I\u2019m dead,\u201d so he won\u2019t affect how his work is received. \u201cIf you have to pro\u00admote it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}