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  The advent of robots, sound art has been mediated by machines and artificial intelligence. Robots can be programed to “think” to produce music that can fool humans to consider the sons were made by their same species. From the article “When Robots Write Songs”, some robots were specially designed to emulate some famous Jazz musians and DJs and they indeed surprised me by copying and developing those personal preferences and styles in music compositions. Starting from building the Fibonacci relationships among the notes to generate people’s general appreciation towards beauty, the amazing robots can even develop the algorithms to deconstruct and understand personal music styles in such a rational way.

    One of the most interesting projects about how artificial sound art can change human’s perception of the world is the Prelude in ACGT. Eploring the relationship between biology and music, the tool designed by Pierry Jequillard uses the developer’s own DNA and converts it into music. By controlling several parameters like Tempo, the developer is able to visualize and understand the algorithmic process of how artificial intelligence converts his chromosomes into musical arrangements. Such a technological advances amazes me in its conversion of our natural form into encoded eternal artworks. Moreover, the experiment successfully demonstrates the versatility of artificial intelligence in producing interdisciplinary of arts.

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