David Cope | Algorithmic Vivaldi

Here's a cool guy: David Cope has authored a piece of software that detects patterns in music and composes new riffs that follow the same rules. Using Emmy (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), he recently premiered Virtual Vivaldi: The Zodiac at the 2006 Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. A 12 movement piece (one for each sign of the zodiac) in the style of the Four Seasons... a 'remix' so to speak.

Cope is Professor of Music at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and regularly teaches in the annual Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM).

Read this article from the September issue of WIRED magazine.