0:00 Introduction with Loki.
0:30 Glenn Gould and AI.
1:03 Glenn Gould: "a computer could produce" Mozart’s ideas.
1:49 Now we have AI that can generate musical material.
2:46 The AI-generated piece: ‘Whispers of Elegance’.
3:32 Can you ask it to generate more material?
3:51 The AI-generated extra bit.
4:26 “Like listening to a bunch of non-sequiturs!"
5:15 The computer seems to struggle with variation.
5:53 Matthew plays and explains his transcription of the computer’s piece.
6:48 Mozart’s preference for upper register 3-part textures.
7:17 "Bad counterpoint!”
7:59 “It sounds like a robot!”
8:26 Computer programming and Schoenberg.
8:45 Mozart’s 3 bar phrases in his F major rondo.
9:21 Formulae and disruption
9:44 The computer’s phrase structure
11:18 A busier texture and some problems!
13:10 “Schoenberg once said…"
13:37 Loki barks.
13:44 “An attempt at variation”.
14:15 "I mustn’t be mean!"
14:30 “Something intriguing…but…"
14:44 "It doesn’t understand what it means to be a human being”.
15:08 "When Mozart writes a phrase, it’s like speech.”
16:00 “The signifier is disconnected”.
16:15 Mozart’s powers of communication.
16:50 AI’s artistic problem
17:09 Architecture: AI can’t construct a form.
17:25 Mozart’s 2nd theme.
17:48 Every piece of music takes you on a journey.
18:07 Gould: “..and so could a five-year-old after a few weeks of theory lessons!”
18:42 Mozart himself is the most famous example of a 5-year-old composer
18:50 Mozart’s Minuet in F (aged 5 or 6)
19:26 The difference between Mozart the child and Mozart the man.
20:04 “Gould’s wrong!…but essential…"
20:40 What do you think?

Following on from his earlier video discussion with Glenn Gould about Mozart (   • How Mozart Became A Bad Composer: The...  ) Matthew King continues to debate with Gould about the capacity of AI to compose. Here the main question is whether a computer can produce the same compositional results as Mozart, and Matthew transcribes and analyses an AI-generated composition in classical style. He also challenges Gould’s assertion that Mozartean formulae can be reproduced by “a five-year-old after a few weeks of theory lessons”.

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Glenn Gould’s original 1968 TV essay, ‘How Mozart became a Bad Composer’ can be seen here:    • Glenn Gould - FULL SHOW On How Mozart...  

Edited by Ian Coulter

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