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Doesn’t matter. The genius of Bach was that his works were so well designed that they are reproducible with the use of mechanical media. It is possible to take his templates and produce whole new works. Because he also wrote for generic keyboards, it means that players on different instruments have huge leeway in how they can interpret his music and it still sounds like Bach.
Also Mozart wrote a random generated piano sonata. I programmed it to play on my ZX Spectrum over 40 years ago.
I just came to post just that: I wrote a random player for the Beeb more than 40 years ago.
Ah, no, the plan is different. Take AI. Feed in Bach scores. Get it to play those scores in, say, style of organ in Estonian cahtedral. Release on Spotify. Rinse, repeat, lithuanian organ, Austrian etc etc.
Collect streaming income.
Spotify streaming income is of the order of 0.0001p per stream. Are you sure that will cover the AI training charges?
You don’t really need AI for that. Just a standard DAW. You feed in the score, select the instrument and save. Change instrument and save.
Perhaps it could produce some impossible drawings as well.
Since Bach wrote more than a thousand works, many of incredible depth and complexity, I’m not sure that we really need more. It would take a lifetime just to learn about the ones that we already have.
https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach
Do they have to? Will it be compulsory?
What if I don’t like the banjos ?
That’s pretty cool.
I did like this ….from AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_t3h2AZ0KY