I agree with Bradylama. A computer won't understand what to do if it comes upon something that sounds good for the first time. It might trash something beneficial or innovative without being programmed to determine what constitutes a good song from bad. Can a computer have taste and make comparisons like a human? The ability to say, "No, this will not work for such and such reason..." No, it can't.
It might be able to process a series of familiar chord progressions, but that tells little about writing a song which people might actually be able to relate to. Besides that, there other areas of song writing apart from structure and mathematics.
For instance, how would a machine determine that the snare drum is cancelling out the melody in the b section? Or perhaps that the high hats and the bass are too up front in the mix. In regards to fleshing a song together, these are parts of the equation that I simply can't see a computer being very discerning.
A computer is a computer, not a person.
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The human mind is incredibly easy to cater to. It's been done with all sorts of things, really.
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That doesn't mean a computer will be capable of it. A computer can do a lot of things...writing music that caters to the human mind isn't necessarily one of them. I mean, humans can program a computer to write music. To design a program which throws a series of chords and melody types together. And it might do a decent job. But even if the music is grand...is the computer truly writing the music itself, or is it a result of its parent programming which was conducted by a human? I tend to think the latter.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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