<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For the last five years or so, I've subjected my intro music-theory classes to a musical Turing Test: I play the first movement of David Cope's Concerto (from Virtual Bach) and ask them to name the composer. Nobody has ever said “a computer,” and they’re always pretty surprised when I tell them how the piece was created. Total number of students probably about 350.<div><br></div><div>It seems to me that it would be very easy to find pairs of pieces, one computer-generated and one human composed, where untrained listeners show a strong if not overwhelming preference for the computer-generated piece. Not sure what if anything to take form that ...</div><div><br></div><div>DT<br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dmitri Tymoczko</div><div>Associate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Professor of Music</div><div>310 Woolworth Center</div><div>Princeton, NJ 08544-1007</div><div>(609) 258-4255 (ph), (609) 258-6793 (fax)</div><div><a href="http://dmitri.tymoczko.com">http://dmitri.tymoczko.com</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<br></div></div></body></html>