HUMANS can tell the difference if a piece of music is being played by a computer or a fellow mortal, a top German shrink claims.
Stefan Koelsch hooked 20 people to an encephalogram and forced them to listen to piano sonatas played by human musicians and computers.
While the original human recordings prompted listeners to react by sweating, the computerised versions failed to move them.
This seems to prove that volunteers who listened to recordings of professional pianists showed more emotional activity than did those who listened to recordings made by computer.
It suggested that musicians actually tell us something when they play, Koelsch said.
It also proves that the more electronic music gets, with less input from real musicians, the less soul it has. Living proof that plastic bands such as Girls Aloud should be drowned for the sake of humanity, if you needed such evidence.
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10th-July-2008, 10:41 AM
Computers make rubbish musicians
Electronic Music
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