Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4116-4120 (14th to 18th Dec, 2020)
Shremedy:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 17 Dec 2020, 18:21 ---New comic.
My, who is that dark haired gentleman in the library? He looks familiar...
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Meh, probably some new side character... :wink:
Gyrre:
Speaking of sheet music transcribed by hand, have you ever seen the music for Prelude and the Last Hope in C and C# Minor as arranged by John Stump?
(Yes, some people have actually attempted to play it.)
EDIT: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGDDfoSBSyk
Case:
Ok, I know it's bad style citing yourself, but:
--- Quote from: Case on 21 Dec 2020, 20:47 ---It's startling to see how the usage of tools that were already there in the early 90s has started to subtly change and augment the thinking of the artists who use them.
(There's some parallel development with Mathematica and analytical calculations in physics and engineering - I've met at least one colleague who I'd call a weird type of 'cyborg' researcher, where the software is half of the whole, with the human providing direction and curiosity, and the software extending the reach of the feeble, slow genius human mind by orders of magnitude)
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Yeah, turns out 'the kids' (sowwyyyy) have already had that idea and have taken it to the next Galaxy ... check this out:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xMhRwxXJTc
Whooot! :laugh:
Edit: One thing that was instantly recognizable to me - both Adam playing it and the neural net's version - was 'The Jaco Pastorius Harmonic LickTM' at 4:21 (Pastorius 'pioneered' the use of flageolet notes in bass-playing, a bit similar to the (related) 'tapping' technique in guitar soloing that the late great Eddie van Halen popularized). Which is a bit funny to me, since iirc, one characteristic of that specific lick - besides the striking sound - is that its tonal sequence is very specific to the physical construction and tuning of a Bass-guitar (a Bass is tuned 'in fourths', unlike eg a Violin or Cello that are tuned in fifths): The left hand motoric pattern associated with that lick is simply conventient to execute on a Bass-guitar (look at what Adam's left hand does @4:25) - not unusual, as musicians will naturally tend to perfer to stick to tonal sequences that are easier to execute on their specific instrument, and hence, the instrument is always a bit of a 'co-composer', especially in soloing and improv. But the neural network has no way of knowing about those constraints that would play a role in a human instrumentalist's choice of tonal material, having neither a Bass nor hands nor strings (flagelots are the natural harmonics of the underlying string). And yet it chooses a sequence that is convenient to play on a Bass, but not, eg. a Violin.
Tova:
Still one of my favourite things in the world, BTW.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0nwSv6cTU
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Case on 21 Dec 2020, 19:52 ---
OMG, the vid behind this ... :-o
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Might someone be so kind as to link it? I don't recognize.
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