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Originally Posted by blastingas10
Any real musician with a sense of rhythm wouldnt have much trouble making some beats with their computers or keyboards. On the other hand, any techo musician wouldnt be able to do what Bach or The Beatles or Louis Armstrong did.
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You're comparing apples and oranges. The Beatles can't do what Bach did. The Beatles didn't do what Sonic Youth did. It's all relative.
The Beatles are a particularly poor example, because they wrote pop music (a lot of which was pretty average), which technically speaking, all of mainstream music is doing today. I'm not denying their influence, but you can't hold influence against today's artists, because you can't foresee the effect they will have on music over the coming decades, or generations.
The production studio is but another instrument to play. There is no computer that can "write music for an artist". What we know as music is vibrations of air molecules that our brain interprets a thousand different ways and pieces together into what we know as a "song". Music doesn't enter your ear, only differing vibrations do. Music is a product of the brain.
It takes a person to write music, and a person to hear it. A person can use a computer as an instrument on which to perform music, but a computer cannot write music.
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Originally Posted by This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Wherever you are right now--whether you're in an airplane, coffee shop,a library, at home in a park, or anywhere else--stop and listen to the sounds around you. Unless you're in a sensory isolation tank, you can probably identify at least a half dozen different sounds. Your brain's ability to make these identifications is nothing short of remarkable when you consider what it starts out with--that is, what the sensory receptors pass up to it. Grouping principles--by timbre, spatial location, loudness, and so on--help to segregate them, but there is still a lot we don't know about this process; no one yet has designed a computer that can perform this task of sound source separation.
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If a computer can't even distinguish between the hundreds of different sounds that may comprise any one song, how can it be expected to compile them into anything resembling music without a human being involved in the process?
It is easier these days for a single person to produce and perform all of the parts on an album using modern technology and the recording studio as an instrument, but it is
no easier to write the song (the melody, the lyrics, the harmonies, the arrangements, etc.) itself.