2010-03-15, 01:22 AM
I think the basic idea I have is to put every instrument (or virtual musician) on its own track. I think that will create a much more believable tapestry. Truth is if you take a bunch of different instruments all playing something nice and just plop them together you tend to get something that sounds ok.
Without intentionally wounding Tom, it seems to me like a way he could both get in on the ground floor of something interesting while really distinguishing himself and his work, because what he's doing is really very outside already, and this would provide strong "rationalization" for how it is he's already working. Composing something like a "5D" musical score would be an impressive feat in itself... especially if he got really good at it. I don't know if a composer has ever sat down to consciously and formally compose music designed to adapt on the fly to what is basically a chaotic system with a finite set of knowable constraints. I'm sure it's been done in an art exhibit, but doing it for a real production would probably be a historic event.... however primitive the early attempts.
I've always thought something like this would be relegated to AI, but I think under the circumstances a reasonable case can be made for going in a more manual direction.
Without intentionally wounding Tom, it seems to me like a way he could both get in on the ground floor of something interesting while really distinguishing himself and his work, because what he's doing is really very outside already, and this would provide strong "rationalization" for how it is he's already working. Composing something like a "5D" musical score would be an impressive feat in itself... especially if he got really good at it. I don't know if a composer has ever sat down to consciously and formally compose music designed to adapt on the fly to what is basically a chaotic system with a finite set of knowable constraints. I'm sure it's been done in an art exhibit, but doing it for a real production would probably be a historic event.... however primitive the early attempts.
I've always thought something like this would be relegated to AI, but I think under the circumstances a reasonable case can be made for going in a more manual direction.