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It's kinda telling to me that all the examples are soundalikes on sorta famous individuals. Totally valid of course, but among all the different musical styles there's no dance music; is it because without any distinctive vocal or orchestral flourishes, there isn't much that the algorithm can latch on to?

Maybe what we're hearing is the distillation of what makes these individual artists/composers distinctive/recognizable but without the musical substance, rather like a floppy rubber mask that resembles a specific individual but lacks an animating interior force. Kinda like how electronic synths/sequencers instruments make it very easy to come up with distinctive flourishes or sounds that make great ear candy, but it takes much longer to develop a solid sense of groove, harmonic motion etc..



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