____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 05 May 2008 22:22 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:38:23 +0100
> <3809891.B3RWdc5cBW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 28 April 2008 19:21 : \____
>>
>>> [10] Writing one's own music (not sure that's even possible
>>> anymore
>>
>> Wait until people start copyrighting soundbeats, just as
>> they patent trivial software 'tricks'. Artistic interpretation
>> and inspiration already make the idea of copying one's music
>> a borderline thing. Can you measure song similarity?
>> Sound similarity? Voice imitation? What about humour?
>>
>
> I believe satire is covered under free speech court
> rulings, but I could see this sort of thing clogging the
> courts (they'd have to judge whether one piece of music
> is derived from and/or similar to another). AFAIK most
> satire, however, uses lyrics to make its point -- the
> one coming to mind is Weird Al's "Eat It", which is
> based on Michael Jackson's "Beat It" melody-wise.
>
> But there's only so many chord transitions in a musical
> "phrase" anyway. One can even give an upper limit, given
> the chordset (and many of them would be aesthetically ugly
> anyway, in the wrong musical context).
>
> For example, assuming major chords only, one has 12
> possibilities; assuming three transitions and starting
> with C, one gets 11^3 = 1331 basic phrasings. Granted,
> identifying the musical pieces corresponding with these
> phrasings would be a rather detailed (and probably tedious)
> exercise.
>
> Minor, 7, diminished, and augmented chord variants,
> and variations such as trills and triplets make for even
> more fun. There are also issues such as "chord rotation"
> (sorry, can't think of the proper musical term therefor);
> one can express C major as either C2[*]-E2-G2, E2-G2-C3,
> G2-C3-E3 with a basic 3-set, or C2-E2-G2-C2 with 4 notes
> (and of course the variations set in; C7 in particular
> is C2-E2-G2-B2).
>
> So maybe there's plenty of songs left in the human condition. ;-)
> Or at least plenty of variation. Think of, for example, of
> the song "The Old Gray Mare" with a triplet accompaiment, or
> the traditional funeral march played in a syncopated style.
>
> As for beats....I could see that happening, mostly because the
> fancier keyboards commonly come with a set of beats. One hopes
> of course for sanity in this area.
>
> [*] C2 is middle C, if I'm not mistaken, in MIDI. I'd have
> to look now, though, and instrument variations will change
> registers.
So we are still left with no solution. This renders part of the whole
intellectual monopoly wet dream the moguls are having a tad obsolete, doesn't
it?
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