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Do Machines Make Music?
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Milton Mermikides traces music-making machines from historical automata to digital technology and explores their creative role.
Professor Milton Mermikides traces machine-made music from ninth-century Arabic musical automata to today's digital technologies, asking whether a machine can truly understand music or only simulate it.
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