Originally Posted by eddie1261
Or the old EMI? Ertificial Music Intelligence?
David Cope wrote a program called EMI, for Experiments in Musical Intelligence. EMI was basically a bunch of specialized pattern matching code written in LISP.
Cope created databases of various composer's music that EMI was able to re-constitute into fairly cohesive music that matched the style of the original composer.

For example, here's a rendition of music in the style Vivaldi:


In this article Cope describes turning on EMI, going out for lunch and coming back to 5000 new pieces of music in the style of Bach. So what do you do when you have thousands of pieces of music? He says:
Originally Posted by David Cope
He realised that what made a composer properly understandable, properly "affecting", was in part the fact of mortality. Composers had to die, and the ending made sense of what had gone before. With this in mind, Cope unplugged Emmy six years ago; her work – which he limited to 11,000 chosen pieces, was done. Emmy – housed on an ancient Power Mac 7500 (discontinued in 1996) now sits idle in the corner of his office.
But there I go, putting off working on lyrics again.

Unlike EMI, I can't crank out 5000 pieces of music in a lunchtime. cry

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?