[echelon]

Today you're a Taylor Swift fan and you want more of her music faster than she can deliver. Maybe you make it yourself and share with friends, and it goes viral. She might even get on stage and sing it.

Tomorrow, you want more Taylor Swift and you tell the computer to give it to you. It delivers with no human intervention whatsoever. You love it, but want it a bit more country - so be it. Piano and acoustic. Got it. A duet between her and Bruno Mars. Just for you.

Michael Jackson and Elvis? Nothing is without possibility.

Brand new singers. Instruments and styles we could never conceive of - all about to happen.

A never-ending stream of novel music that tailors itself to you.

Already being dreamed up.

I'm building this, have parts of it already working, and I'm sure others are as well.

Every inch of your day to day life is about to change in a way that will make developments brought on by smartphones and the Internet pale in comparison.

[davidivadavid]

Is every inch of my day to day life about to be spent consuming an endless stream of media?

[Reebz]

I think what you’re working on is genuinely intriguing. How will it work commercially once you gain popularity, do you pay Taylor Swift a royalty for using her voice likeness?

[idontpost]

You don't get it.

> A never-ending stream of novel music that tailors itself to you.

That's worthless. A firehose of novelty is almost immediately no longer novel.

Why would anyone want this?

It's the same problem already with streaming services and their own series. They're all already joyless and immediately forgettable. They have less and less value.

Your breathlessly described "amazing transformation" sounds incredibly boring and pointless.

[echelon]

> You don't get it.

It's easy to say that as someone on the outside without skin in the game, not working on this, not in the know.

> That's worthless. A firehose of novelty is almost immediately no longer novel.

And yet here you are on HN. I'll bet you have a Twitter and phone and consume social media, too. That's all just a poor man's version of what we'll be building.

> Why would anyone want this?

I have literally wanted this exact thing all of my life.

There have only been a handful of films I've walked out of and felt truly satisfied. I've seen thousands of movies shot by mere hundreds of directors at best. That's billions of dollars of institutional capital put behind a few lucky white men for what amounts to as a "meh" at best. Now we can empower anyone to have their own take at it. To build and express anything. To sift and sort through emotional/concept space and deliver truly new things.

We get one short life to experience the universe. Let's climb the gradient to the stars and experience the limits.

> It's the same problem already with streaming services and their own series. They're all already joyless and immediately forgettable. They have less and less value.

Spaghetti thrown at walls by blank check writing firms trying to capture eyeballs. This isn't at all what I'm talking about. This technology will bankrupt that type of behavior.

Everyone will have access to these tools and be able to build whatever their heart desires. Whatever they want to put out into the world for the rest of us to experience.

> Your breathlessly described "amazing transformation" sounds incredibly boring and pointless.

I don't get you, but that's fine. We'll be building away regardless.

I don't think humans are the end point of our tiny quadrant of the universe. We're a transitional blip. This is just part of the changing of the guard. And the transformation will yield beautifully captivating results. I'm here to contribute and experience.

[optimalsolver]

Yo, don't listen that guy. Music synthesis is my dream as well, and I look forward to seeing it come to life.

[idontpost]

> And yet here you are on HN. I'll bet you have a Twitter and phone and consume social media, too. That's all just a poor man's version of what we'll be building.

A better version of a net negative is still negative.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it really sounds like more of what we've already proven isn't good.

> It's easy to say that as someone on the outside without skin in the game, not working on this, not in the know.

But you sound like you're in a cult.

[trention]

He is someone under the deluded impression that if he pitches his startup david koresh style in a hackernews thread, something will happen. I have new for this boyo - the moment you try to sell a service that emulates the catalog of {insert famous musician name here}, you are going to get sued to oblivion.