Machine Fallibility and Emergent Weirdness

“If we continue on the current trajectory, the musical singularity promises us no more than consumerist re-enactments of dead composers and deceased pop stars. Forget AI's obsession with hyper-personalised music, AI musicbots, algo-curators, recommendation engines. Forget about location-based musical concierges and mood-detected playlists of music in the style of [insert your favourite composer here]. The real radical breakthrough in AI music will arrive with the composition of impossible music - complex alien algorithmic polyrhythms drenched in estranged DSP timbres - music that humans could never have conceived and never expected to hear.” Paul Prudence  via https://www.transphormetic.com/Published-Essays-Articles-in-Print