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I think Galen's insights are pretty well on. More contests, and other things, can be found through the AMC opportunity notes they send out, and contests remian a good way to disseminate ones work if you can find the right avenues.
Galen brings up an interesting point about judging. If it were a more objective field of endeavor, then I suppose computers could be programmed both to discern and to compose "great" music. We could just use an algorithm not only to judge, but also to create.
Computer composers do just that, but the human element still presents itself in the choices of parameters.
So it begs the question: What IS music, that it can be evaluated, and on what criteria should it be judged?
posted by Cary Boyce
8:54 AM
