Meanderer
Supreme Member
Folk music has long been considered a vehicle for powerful human emotions. From the ghostly and plaintive songs of suffering and salvation captured by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in the penitentiaries and cotton fields of the South to the communistic freedom songs of Woody Guthrie, technology doesn’t usually fit into the equation.
That’s why many sites, including our sister blog Noisey, understandably lost their shit when Henry Svec, a media studies professor and current Media Artist-In-Residence at the University of New Brunswick - Fredericton, claimed to have built a computer that can write folk songs.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/li...that-writes-folk-music-is-too-good-to-be-real
That’s why many sites, including our sister blog Noisey, understandably lost their shit when Henry Svec, a media studies professor and current Media Artist-In-Residence at the University of New Brunswick - Fredericton, claimed to have built a computer that can write folk songs.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/li...that-writes-folk-music-is-too-good-to-be-real