Is This The End Of The Composer?

"You can evolve music without a composer," he explains.

Yeah , s u r e . . . ( article snips )

" To begin with, the computer program randomly churned out two short loops of noise.

The notes are in any place, in any order, and the types of sound - the instrument - is completely randomly generated as well...

Then, as in nature, the program let the two original loops to 'breed', to recombine and mix up their material, with some random mutations thrown in for good measure, to create four new loops.

Those four went on to "reproduce" to create 16 new loops, and so on - until 100 random tunes were in the musical mixing pot.

At which point, the public were brought in.

Through the internet, volunteers were asked to rate the 'songs' that were being produced: from love to indifference to pure hatred.

Those tunes that were detested were thrown out. But the more popular ones were kept and allowed to "breed" to create a new generation of songs.

A few hundred generations down the line and the clashing chords began to vanish and better rhythms started to emerge.

A few thousand generations on, and the music improved again..."

" O K " ... NOW I see what they mean: *I* can go into the kitchen, and try thousands of combinations of sugar, cocoa, honey, raspberry liqueur (Chambord), and/or whatever else I want to use ("random_picks") ... AND, in the end, after picking-out just the BEST concoctions, I can write an article for BBC News titled:

Incredible Culinary Delights Now Possible ~ WITHOUT Employing a Chef!