Oh yeah, and aside from composing music it seems Emily can also converse and communicate thought. But where things will go from here is anybody's guess. This keeps things from getting too crazy, for now. She composes something and he provides feedback and so on.

To keep her compositions contained within the spectrum of human appreciation, creator David Cope and Emily work in collaboration. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound like any musician I know. An artist with no pre-conceived prejudices willing to bend at any request. She is apparently able to take written or audible feedback and incorporate it into her next musical composition. One main thing that sets Emily apart from her human counterparts is that she is adaptable and egolessly self-modifying in her ability to respond to criticism. Well, as much as anyone's style is truly unique. So you can say Emily has her own unique perspective and musical style. Emily however, from what I understand, uses only the output of Emmy as a source database for its musical choices. Emmy was designed in the eighties and what it did was take input from pre-existing sources, such as works by Beethoven, Chopin or Bach and then worked inside of those guidelines to create unique compositions in a similar style. Emily is artificial, and quite intelligent, at least in the ways of musical composition.Įmily is the daughter program of an earlier program known as Emmy or EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence).

Emily Howell is a computer program created specifically for composing music by UC Santa Cruz professor of music David Cope. Emily Howell - From Darkness, Light (2010)ĭecades from now, when my grandchildren gaze up at me and ask 'what was it like when robots first showed signs of creative intelligence?', my answer will be 'surprisingly beautiful.

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