Yo-Yo Ma Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G Major

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Recommends fredley · 2018-10 · on “Piano Genie: An Intelligent Musical Interface”

This suffers from the limitation of many generative music algorithms/tools in that you're locked into a key (in this case C major - no black notes are played at all), which makes it a cool toy and research project, but of no real use to anyone. Most of what makes good music good (or interesting music interesting if you'd prefer) comes from harmonic interplay and shift. Bach was a master of this. If you listen to the unaccompanied 'cello suites[1] then what makes the music so fascinating is that even though only one note is being played at a time, the harmonic landscape is shifting and changing (often in 'unexpected' ways) all the time. Doing this with algorithms and making it sound good is h

Recommends olau · 2021-08 · on “Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic”

If you like Baroque keyboard music, try something like Scarlatti. It's a bit difficult finding good interpretations (I have a CD somewhere), but here's an example [LINK] Rameau is a different kind of beast from Bach: [LINK] [LINK] I also really recommend giving Bach's cello suites a try: [this video]

Cites dang · 2020-05 · on “Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?”

You can write any program in any Turing-complete language, so that's obviously not my point. Rather, it's that there's a deep interdependency between the three variables of language, programmer, and problem that give rise to a system like HN+YC (which was a single program until 2014). If you changed any one of those variables you'd either have gotten something radically different or nothing at all. So my statement is a bit like saying that YC would not exist without PG; and your objection is a bit like saying: that's an exaggeration, any person who did the same steps at the same time could have arrived at the same place (and perhaps better since that person might have been a better manager a