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a Musical Turing Test

:: Question
Can we make the distinction between music played by a human and music played by a machine ?

:: Description
A small "Music Turing test" was organized by Sam Verhaert for a radio broadcast on the VPRO channel in the Netherlands. The test consisted in 2 music critics (Henkjan Honing and Koen Schouten) listening to Jazz pianist Albert van Veenendaal playing with a Yamaha grand piano and the Continuator. They had then to decide who was playing. The result was largely in favor of the Continuator...

:: Media

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Some extracts of the sessions:
a small one (11 megas), a longer one (20 megas)

Albert playing and listening himself

:: Participants

Francois Pachet
Jazz pianist Albert van Veenendaal,
Musicologist Henkjan Honing,
Music critic and journalist Koen Schouten,
Radio journalist Sam Verhaert from VPRO channel, who organized the whole event and edited the session to make a radio broadcast.

:: References

Last update: 06.11.2002