Evolutionary music

Short entry this week, but hopefully a precursor for future entries - Triumph of the Cyborg Composer is a fascinating article well worth the read. It details the work of "Emily Howell", a computer program that composes quite remarkably (samples included in the article).

I highlight this because it's a direction similar to a project I stumbled on called Evolution 9, which is an attempt to "evolve" music to mimic the Beatles. All of this could potentially play nicely with my RNM, so look for more on this in the future.

For now, enjoy the works of Emily Howell (her newly released album is Emily Howell: From Darkness, Light), and ponder the philosophical ramifications of a composing computer (Douglas Hofstadter talks about this nicely in the latter half of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid).