[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Why is computer generated music not as impre...
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       Ask HN: Why is computer generated music not as impressive as DALL*E
       2?
        
       Maybe composing good music is more difficult than creating a
       quality painting regardless of whether it is done by a human being
       or computer?
        
       Author : amichail
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-06-27 22:08 UTC (53 minutes ago)
        
       | Geonode wrote:
       | What percentage of human generated music is impressive? One
       | percent? Even the greats only have three or four truly great
       | songs.
       | 
       | Is DALL-E 2's work remarkable if you saw it on art station? No,
       | it's just remarkable because of who made it.
        
         | masswerk wrote:
         | As an artist - i.e., judged by artistic criteria - DALL-E 2 is
         | rather terrible. The other way round, if getting basic
         | harmonics right is your criterium for good music, there is no
         | problem with computer generated music. I guess, it's for the
         | additional temporal dimension of music that forces us to
         | consider the internal cohesion of a piece and the fact that
         | audiences tend to be more exposed to music in everyday life
         | that there's this huge perceived gap.
         | 
         | (That said, there has been this long-nursed idea in art theory
         | that music would be the highest of all arts, for being both the
         | most abstract one and also the most direct one. One may assume
         | that a higher degree of abstraction would favor computer
         | generated content, the emotional dimension, however, may give
         | it away more easily.)
        
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