An article in Monday’s (7/2) Telegraph (London) states, “Computers have aided the creation of music for decades, but human beings have always been a vital component in making those works sound good. Until now—programmers at the University of Malaga have developed Iamus, which is able to create compositions without the aid of human intervention. Several of these have been deemed good enough to be performed by top orchestras and musicians. The London Symphony Orchestra will be among several musicians to perform pieces by Iamus on a CD released in September this year. Gustavo Diaz-Jerez, a pianist from the music conservatory in San Sebastian, will play the piano on the recordings. He said the LSO were ‘surprised’ by the quality of what they were being asked to play. LSO’s chairman Lennox Mackenzie said to begin with the music was ‘too dense’, but that ‘by the end of it, I thought it was quite epic’. … Iamus had its first full composition played in October 2011, where Hello World! was performed by clarinet, violin and piano.”
Posted July 3, 2012
