At the University of Rochester they have found a way recreate the physics of a clarinet and clarinet player inside of the computer. What makes this unique is that computer wouldn’t just be playing a recording of the song, but replaying the notes the same way the original player did down to the backpressure in the mouthpiece. The main advantage of now is it creates incredibly compressed music files, about 1,000 smaller then an mp3. Although if this technology ever goes into completion, it would revolutionize how programs like GarageBand create music.
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That's pretty cool to think about- do you think that it could also revolutionize how we listen/buy music for our ipods?
Touting this as music "compression" seems kind of deceptive. It would be like calling MIDI files just compressed versions of mp3s (and really, that's all this is--the next advance in MIDI technology).
So while [I sincerely hope that] this isn't a revolution in how we listen to music, it's definitely a revolution in how we produce music. No longer will we have to deal with crappy remixes using Casiotones. Digital synthesizers won't be the same if they can cram the physics simulations into them.
Some instruments may be harder than others, though. Guitars, for example, come in all shapes and sizes and there are tons of variables to consider (what kind of wood is it made of, how much does it weigh, what shape, what kind of pick up(s), what tubes in the amplifier, what speakers, how is the amp constructed, strumming up or down, effects pedals, etc.)
I guess electronic music will benefit a lot, but the acoustic/analog purist in me wants to decry this type of advancement.
There's a program called Vocaloid created by Yamaha, which is sort of like this, but can program to sing a song with digital voice. They call it "virtual vocalist." Now people can actually create songs and listen to them even if they can't sing it.
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