Another Type of Digital-to-Analog Transfer
Is it unreasonable that the music geek in me gets excited about news like this? Aside from the obvious benefit of getting ready-made transcriptions or scores, the amount of technology that goes into recognizing the environmental conditions around the sound, picking out the individual instruments, and translating all of that information into a notation system based on the preservation efforts of 15th-century European monks. Amazing. Although there might be theory teachers out there bemoaning the loss of transcription skills in favor of plugging it in and running, I'm still geeked about the possibility of getting a complete folio of some artists just based off of a few sound files. And what a boon to music libraries! Besides, the students will still need ears to fix the inevitable mistakes. No program is perfect.
I also want to see how they notate Albert Ayler and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.