Comments on: Together in electric dreams https://www.isegoria.net/2005/01/together-in-electric-dreams/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Grasspunk https://www.isegoria.net/2005/01/together-in-electric-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-3379749 Grasspunk Fri, 14 May 2021 08:22:05 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/2005/01/together-in-electric-dreams/#comment-3379749 Software like this is backwards-looking. New hits often contain elements that are fresh and part of the current music conversation or take it further, e.g. the Billie Eilish weak voice thing has been around since Melanie Martinez but only gained wider uptake with Billie.

Getting more specific, the question for me is could some ML software with a corpus of 80s music have come up with Blinding Lights? Analog synths, Take On Me drumline, Maniac drum fills? Or would it be a boring blend of things? Or does its value depend on modern techniques that are not obvious, like sidechain and other digital processing or Max Martin song structure?

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