Originally Posted by eddie1261
I kinda totally love this. I'd love to see you turn out a CD with every track done to the latest time standard for songs. (Is it still EXACTLY 3:34?) 10 tracks of different iterations of the same song titled "Mistake".

I liken this long running AI debate to the time way back when I caught all kids of grief because I liked techno music so much. All I heard was that sequenced parts controlled by sequencing software and played back through a series of MIDI controlled instruments was "cheating". Everybody I knew hated it. May I list a few bands they "hated"?

Howard Jones
The Thompson Twins
Talk Talk
Gary Neuman
The Human League
Haircut 100
Flock Of Seagulls
Duran Duran
Daft Punk
Pet Shop Boys
Tears For Fears
A-Ha
Depeche Mode
Simple Minds
Eurythmics

What makes me laugh is knowing that a lot of the people who put those bands down went on to do solo acts with, you guessed it, backing tracks. And in a true stroke of irony, many of them use backing tracks that they bought rather than programming them. Or even perhaps (gasp) writing their own songs!! The reason they do it is, of course, because they can keep all the money with no band members to pay. And to push the irony further, many of them look down at karaoke. Um.....

Karaoke, correctly written kara oke, is Japanese for "empty orchestra", which is exactly what they are doing. Music with no musicians performing it. The first karaoke machine was called The Sparko Box, a little cube that flashed flights as it played, and the guy who invented it, Shigeichi Negishi, died last month at 100 years of age.

And here we are with software created by the very much alive Dr. Gannon. And discussing AI tools that can replace it.

Irony can be so ironic sometimes.

Ok, there's a lot there! ha! I do know where you're coming from. I completely enjoy the bands you mentioned! I actually saw Depeche Mode in concert for the first time in 1990. The music was fantastic and the lights were all programmed to visually go with all the little production things they do. I was so geeked out it was pathetic! I loved it! Btw, talk about making your songs interesting! They were masters.

The band that opened for them one of the times was Nitzer Ebb. If you haven't heard of them, they were a great lead up to DM.

Did you listen to Information Society at all by chance? A bit more happy pop, but still did some cool things.

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.