Data-Driven Art

Also called algorithmic art, but this will be re-labeled in the future, perhaps "New Aesthetic".

Take guitar or sax solos for example. In the old-school days we used to play things in "phrases". Phrases are now samples. Phrases used to be associated with the length of an exhalation, even if played by non-wind instruments.

What is a "digital breath?" This is an interesting metaphor that brings together how we make music with the body and how make it with the mind. Even if we can figure out how to simulate the process of manual phrasing, it is always the mind at work.

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