Dorsetmike
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The robot saxophonist doesn't have "soul" but is that just because the software/harware isn't yet sophisticated enough? Or is "soul" an indefinable somthing which a machine can never have? It's an interesting question.
I'm always telling step son that the "drums" on his electronic music (which he raves about ) are about as subtle as a pile driver, I've yet to hear anything electronically produced which has any feeling at all.
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Come to that a lot of modern composers' "music" doesn't have much soul/feeling or whatever it takes, more like musak you hear in lifts, repetitive bland rubbish (e.g. Einnaudi) or atonal cr@p (e.g. Gorecki), I wish I could programme the radio to mute when some of that is announced, save me having to switch off or change channel
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Sorry for mentioning music here John, forgot where I was for a moment or two.