Writer and musician David Was introduces a composer who has developed a computer system that plays along with a human musician. The computer matches the musician's improvisations with riffs of its own ...

Can a Yamaha CX5M computer succeed in a world of glockenspiels and triangles?

His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity. By Miguel Salazar David Cope, a composer ...