Does it matter if the wind makes the music, blowing through bells and pipes? Or if a piece of software makes the music? Or if Bach does? Or if you do? I am not suggesting equivalence of quality – and that is a different debate – only whether or not the who or the what is misleading. Set against that thought is the fact that the biggest touring bands in the world are still old-fashioned (and increasingly old-aged) guys who write their music and play their instruments. But this is probably the end of an era. As David Cope puts it: ‘The question isn’t whether computers possess a soul but if we
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