When I was a kid, I worked my shit out by skulking down to the basement in my parents’ house and banging away for hours at the piano we inherited from my grandfather. Every so often I could sense a presence come down the stairs behind me and just settle in while I perambulated across […] […]
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Microsoft Songsmith Signals the End of the Human Musician
Microsoft Songsmith is new software from Redmond that actually introduces a pretty cool technological maneuver: it parses a musical vocal passage and attempts to add auto accompaniment in a variety of styles, taking cues from the user as to emotional scale ranging from happy and sad to genre based generalities like “jazzy” and “twist” and gee, I dunno, a train smashing into a muzak jukebox. […]