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RE: David Cope/EMI (Was:Mozart's 42nd - yeah, right)
At 14:44 26/05/98 -0700, you wrote:
>. I have David
>Cope's latest CD, "Classical Music Composed By Computer," and find at least
>parts of it to be engaging. His Sonata "after Beethoven" combining
>elements of the Moonlight sonata with Bach harmonies was actually quite
>affecting. Maybe he has taken the concept a little bit too far, but it is
>at least interesting. One of the stranger pieces combines Mozart with
>Balinese gamelan. The performances on the CD, btw, are by live performers,
>so maybe their "human" input helped.
I forgot to say before that the worst part of the first Cope CD was that
everything was being performed by computer, and that the piano was
horrible:-> Human perfomers make soooooo much difference....
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