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And this is music with a different, albeit equally valid "point": to see ourselves reflected, abstracted, and find what we can still recognize. It's like a Rorschach test, or a piece of highly abstract art. Who are we to say what was going on in the mind of the artist? So often, we are absolutely wrong about their state of mind, their intention, those experiences and beliefs.

Alternatively, here, we are still witnessing art. The artist, as ever, is human: the scientists who pieced together these techniques. Theirs is the voice, if only humans can have a voice, that we hear in the work.

They are not semantically empty: they are absorbed, semantically, in the domain of the computer scientist who, through no fault of their own, could never sing before now.



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