No talent needed for pop music, just evolution: study (via
AFP)
No talent necessary: The perfect pop tune can be engineered by a computer program and refined with the input of listeners, according to a British study published in the United States Monday. The experiment, known as DarwinTunes, aimed to test the importance of consumer choice in shaping the music that…
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Slightly depressing, but also very true, I think. I wonder how this will alter the future of classical music? More and more pre-teens and teenagers are moving away from classical music and toward electric…it makes me wonder if there will be ANY authentic instruments in recordings, eventually. And the thought that there may not just makes me sad.