But I love the Traveling Wilburies!!

Also, ELO totally rocks.

Gary... knowing your end goal, to have a computer that could absorb every hit song and then spit out a great song of its own devising; I went ahead and finished your program for you.

Here is our first product in the key of E!:

Lovefizz

Oo baby, I love your eyes
Each night I doubted myself
And learned to need the lies
I’m taking the redeye sky high
Why, why, why, baby, why?

Oh baby, love ain't what you get
It’s always been who you know
And never who you’ve met
It’s the reason that we treason until wet
Wet, wet, wet, baby, wet.

Prechorus:
We danced among the stars
We ate a big sandwich (??? Well, that’s what it spat out, man)
We hated every foreign car
But only cuz we couldn’t afford it

Chorus:
All there is to know about love
Is that love is all there is
Your bubble butt really makes me fizz
Lovefizz! I is lovefizz!

:\ Sweet Sally Brown what happened?

I think we still need to work the kinks out. Either that or put Ray Davies from The Kinks to work as a co-programmer.

Bwhahaha!

Lyrics are off limits for now because I suspect natural language is harder than music theory....

Music theory? Just go D chord down to C chord down to G chord up to C chord and then repeat. You can't miss.

After watching a NOVA documentary on the development of ape minds, I think proper development of a society of mind requires a society of minds, and that's far beyond what I can even imagine doing right now by myself. It's not enough to have one "parent" teaching a "child".... intelligence requires a whole community of others engaged in the process. Even for something as simple as a musicbot.

So I'll go back to exploring the contraption. Perhaps one piece of the puzzle might be solved in my lifetime. Perhaps not... at the very least, it's interesting to me. Like a classic rust-eaten car in the garage. I can tinker with it on weekends.

"Your big ideas don't fit!" -- Randy Stonehill

It is probably fairly easy to get a computer to spew out fairly basic chord sequences and musical lines. What you might have problems with is how it might innovate. A computer will have no aesthetic sense, so it can't tell if something sounds good or bad, or catchy even.

It is probably fairly easy to get a computer to spew out fairly basic chord sequences and musical lines. What you might have problems with is how it might innovate. A computer will have no aesthetic sense, so it can't tell if something sounds good or bad, or catchy even.

Poink!

Poink!

Hmmm. Wonder if I could port this stuff to Python...

Thread bump in the hope of a progress report from the PostMonster.

The days grow long, and I read instead of code.

The days are long, and now I read and code.

I have been torn between building a front-end for a system I nearly (but not quite) understand, and re-creating everything from the ground up. So many ents! So much there that almost works! So much spelunking into the crazy!

Screw that. There are too many snarfs, waldoes, febes, bebes, turtles, agendas, and a thousand other things to make it work right now.

So my current hobby is, I'm gonna extract a library. Let's see if we can't make something of spaces.