Computers as musical instruments
To create a sequence of tones in advance, to compose, is just one of the numerous possibilities to create music and usually only musically educated people achieve good results that way. There is a similarity to the creation of attractive images. My question is, if and how people with less musical and artistic knowledge can be supported to generate good auditive and visual results using a computer. Many fields of music are based on mathematical concepts. Is there a way to leave this mathematical part of composing music to the computer and thus support the user to focus her forces on the intuitive part of the job? And how?
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