From Tony Woolf
London
As in other areas of science and technology, real progress is likely to come
from a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms involved. At the moment we
don’t even know for certain why minor tunes sound sad and major ones happy. To
be sure, no more did Mozart, but then he could feel the results for himself.
When computers can do that, we will all need to worry, though musicians may
be among the last to be out of a job. But will a “pile of computer code” soon be
editing New Scientist? It might at least be logical.
