Emily Howell Research Paper

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Basic laborer work like driving, common white-collar work like office desk-jobs, and highly skilled professions such as doctors are all susceptible to the possible future of automation, but some would make the argument that the work force which is heavily involved with creativity could never be intruded by bots since they have no possible conception or ability to work creatively. This claim is not entirely true. There are currently various bots that have been designed specifically to create works of art both visually and musically. Emily Howell is a musical composer. She has created a number of works that very much resemble the same modern classical style of today - a sort of conglomerate of past and present classical styles. She released her …show more content…

Cope had designed Howell based off of previous software he developed himself called Experiments in Musical Intelligence. This software was designed to take previous works of renowned historical composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Mahler, and create entirely new compositions that were akin to the historical composer's musical style
(Cheng). Howell, however, had been designed to listen to musical compositions in order to get a basic understanding of music in general, and would create an entirely new style unique to her only. Some argue that music requires that "human touch" to make it really feel special to us. But who is to say whether a musical piece is written by software or human if the two are indiscernible from one another? She is by no means crushing fiscal records within the musical industry, but there is a fiscal record with no original human author which stands as proof that whether you enjoy her
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works or not, she is very capable of creating it, opening a possible area of intrusion of automation within the music field of work. Art is no safe haven of automation either. E-David is stirring up his own controversy in the field of art. E-David is both hardware and software combined, built by

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