joe@wateng.UUCP (Joe Morrison) (06/06/85)
There are some fascinating possibilities for using computers with MIDI. Here is one interesting possibility (hypothetical): The computer would read the musician's MIDI output, generate some sort of improvisation, and play the result back to the musician through MIDI, maybe in realtime. Using a system like this the musician could record a chord progression into a sequencer and have a jam with his computer... I am *not* proposing a new musical art form, and I am not interested in "you-are-taking-the-humanity-out-of-music" flames; this is just an idea I had and I thought I would throw it out for discussion... Does anyone have any thoughts on the technical aspects of this? For starters, perhaps it would be necessary to design a "high level" language for describing the chord progressions... A further thought; perhaps it would be useful to soften the distinction between chords and improvisation; groups like Weather Report don't make this distinction and their music works very well. Yours interestedly, -- Joe Morrison Systems on Silicon Group @ University of Waterloo -- -- -- -- decvax ! -- -- -- -- allegra ! watmath ! wateng ! joe -- -- -- -- -- ihnp4 !