David Cope: 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas'

Composer David Cope has spent the last 30 years teaching computers to create classical music • Hear an example from David Cope's Emily Howell project• Download an Emmy Bach-style inventionWhere does music come from? If pressed on this question, many of us would say it comes from the "soul", or from the "heart" of the person who composed it. That music is the clearest expression of human emotion, one person to another; that certain chords, certain melodies seem to communicate a whole language...

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