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Can computers write meaningful music?

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This semester I wrote a thesis for philosophy issue in Computer Science. At first, this was just a try in preparing for a master thesis next year. After following some lectures included in this course, I started to find more interest in writing a thesis in this field. My title is “Can computers write meaningful music?”, with the related fields of Computer Music, Music Composition, Computational Creativity, and Philosophy Issues in CS.

I am writing this note for the discussion session on next Tuesday.

Keypoints

  • Definition related: computers / computational creativity / programs to solve problems in music composition

  • Focus: Are they able to create music? Do they have the ability to create Meaningful muisic? Can computers have creativity?

  • Discussion in the Argument:

    • The definition of program → Arg 1. programs can do things beyond human expectations and limits{ Vague Problem, Unpredictable Answer, }

    • the definition of computational creativity

    • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    • Judge the result, how human bias influence the result → Arg 2. Judging the composition itself { Definition of Creativity, Human Bias }

    • The essence of meaning {Expression of Emotions, Innovation Power}

    • Final conclusion

My reference

  • Literature Resource ( as supporting material)

  1. [1] Gérard Assayag et al. “Interaction with machine improvisation”. In:The Structure ofStyle. Springer, 2010, pp. 219–245.doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12337-5_10.

  2. [2] Simon Colton. “Creativity Versus the Perception of Creativity in Computational Sys-tems”. In:AAAI spring symposium: creative intelligent systems. Vol. 8. 2008.

  3. [3] Michael Edwards. “Algorithmic composition: computational thinking in music”. In:Communications of the ACM54.7 (2011), pp. 58–67.doi:10.1145/1965724.1965742.

  4. [4] Jose D Fernández and Francisco Vico. “AI methods in algorithmic composition: A com-prehensive survey”. In:Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research48 (2013), pp. 513–582.doi:10.1613/jair.3908.

  5. [5] Aaron Hertzmann. “Can computers create art?” In:Arts. Vol. 7. 2. MultidisciplinaryDigital Publishing Institute. 2018, p. 18.doi:10.3390/arts7020018.

  6. [6] MD Louis L. Lunsky. “Contemporary Approaches to Creative Thinking”. In:Arch In-tern Med112.2 (1963), pp. 300–301.doi:10.1001/archinte.1963.03860020198043.

  7. [7] Ramon Lopez de Mantaras and Josep Lluis Arcos. “AI and Music: From Compositionto Expressive Performance”. In:AI Magazine23.3 (2002), p. 43.

  8. [8] Marvin Minsky. “Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understoodand sloppily formulated ideas”. In: 1967, pp. 120–125.doi:10.1145/1094855.1094860.

  9. [9] David C Moffat and Martin Kelly. “An investigation into people’s bias against compu-tational creativity in music composition”. In:Assessment13.11 (2006).

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