Vocabulary: music 詞匯：音樂
Will computers ever replace composers?
Can a computer create music as good as Mozart's? Armand Leroi from Imperial College, London, believes fantastic music can be made without a composer.
Dr Bob MacCallum has been working on Darwin Tunes, a computer programme that can evolve music out of noise.
It's a Darwinian process: at first there are two loops of noise and, as in nature, these 'reproduce' to create four loops, then again to create eight, then 16, and so on.
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Volunteers were brought in to rate the tunes: those not liked were thrown out, while those that hit the right note were allowed to breed to create a new generation of songs.
At first the melodies sounded like a bad jam session but, after a few hundred generations, they started to strike a chord. While no 'Bravos' were heard, the tunes improved quickly from their discordant beginnings.
With bigger, faster computers and millions of people's ratings, will this elevator music evolve into masterpieces?
Professor Leroi sings the praises of this new idea: "Would it be Mozart? No, I don't think so. It would have no composer behind it, it wouldn't be the act of any individual musical genius, it would just be the people's music in its purest form."
One thing is for sure: Professor Leroi's grand vision for the future of the Darwinian music machine won't be music to the ears of composers and musicians.
Glossary 詞匯表 （點(diǎn)擊單詞收聽發(fā)音）
- composer作曲家
- Darwinian進(jìn)化論的
- loop循環(huán)，指音樂里的循環(huán)段落
- to rate評(píng)價(jià)
- tune曲調(diào)
- to hit the right note找到正確的音符，比喻做對(duì)了事情
- melody旋律
- jam session即興演奏
- to strike a chord達(dá)成一個(gè)和弦
- bravo好，觀眾叫好
- discordant不和諧的
- rating評(píng)分
- elevator music公共場(chǎng)所經(jīng)常播放的乏味的音樂
- masterpiece杰作，大師級(jí)作品
- to sing the praises of贊頌，歌頌
- musical genius音樂天才
- to be music to the ears悅耳的音樂，比喻好消息
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