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Quote from: tpaloj on Friday 17 May 2024, 10:31There are various generative AI engines today that have no issue producing somewhat convincing vocals, or instrumental music for that matter. It's just that "classical" music has not been the focal point for the best efforts sofar; rather, those have been directed at other, more popular genres. As an example, I just asked for a "gothic song about bananas" on Suno and got this - frighteningly realistic. Also witnessing AI developments in my own field I am convinced that, with time (and money), this technology could make great strides very quickly.Quote from: tuatara442442 on Friday 17 May 2024, 10:12Ooff. I listened to some samples. It sounds like it would have been way more straightforward to hire an actual orchestra given the technical work involved. But I don't know what circumstances led to them performing the work in this arrangement.Quote from: tpaloj on Friday 17 May 2024, 07:24But I think we're getting close to submitting any printed notation to such software and having it produce a reliable, decent quality audio rendition without too much user input at all.If you are saying generating reality-quality other than midi-quality performance, then there won't be miserable circumstances like Ulrich Leykam "conducting" literally his own "Bayreuth Digital Orchestra" to accompany Naxos-Marco Polo's S. Wagner Sonnenflammen production.
It should be added that while orchestral music can be made to sound somewhat realistic via technology with some effort these days, not even AI can seem to fake good vocals, never mind operaic singing voices to any believable level yet.
Quote from: Alan Howe on Sunday 19 May 2024, 16:59The Suppe is trash - I've just checked. IMHO, of course.I've just re-listened too and I think that's rather harsh. Hurwitz's verdict is ridiculous, of course, but this time around I could hear more clearly Suppé's attempts at symphonic writing - the first movement in particular, and the quasi-fugal passage in the last. The second, slow, movement also develops into something a little more serious towards the end. It is clearly an attempt at a symphony but it's let down by Suppé's choice of thematic material (often trite, if melodic) which doesn't lend itself to development, just repetition. This, in conjunction with his colourful and sometimes bombastic orchestration, cheapens the whole thing. It's not trash, I did enjoy it more the third time around, but it's definitely not "one of the great, mid-century, Austro-German symphonies".
Quote from: tuatara442442 on Yesterday at 01:14His aesthetics is peculiar from time to time. He thought Pfitzner's PC, and by extension, all of his compositions are extremely boring.