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Yup, I'd like to do that. Help me come up with categories..
Best Overall
Funniest
Freest Spirit
Most Troubled
Most Annoying
Best Story/Character
Best Lover
Craziest
Friendliest
Most Obsessed
Best Overall
Funniest
Freest Spirit
Most Troubled
Most Annoying
Best Story/Character
Best Lover
Craziest
Friendliest
Most Obsessed
About composing music by computer: I find that, by far, the music composed by computer that I like best is that based on 1/f or "pink" noise. They call it sometimes "musical noise", and that's exactly what it sounds like. Musical, but without any structure. I once wrote a little program to generate it.
Then I thought I could use the same idea to generate the sort of music you don't normally hear. I tried with different divisions of the octave (the octave is normally divided in twelve semitones, but what happens if you divide it in ten, or seven?). And then I thought I only needed to use Pythagoras rules about harmony: any two notes will sound OK if the ratio between them is some simple fraction, like 2/3 or 3/5. So I made another program that uses only that concept, without being in any fixed "scale". I find that it produces my favourite computer music. If anybody is interested, I think I can send it by e-mail.
Then I thought I could use the same idea to generate the sort of music you don't normally hear. I tried with different divisions of the octave (the octave is normally divided in twelve semitones, but what happens if you divide it in ten, or seven?). And then I thought I only needed to use Pythagoras rules about harmony: any two notes will sound OK if the ratio between them is some simple fraction, like 2/3 or 3/5. So I made another program that uses only that concept, without being in any fixed "scale". I find that it produces my favourite computer music. If anybody is interested, I think I can send it by e-mail.
Send me a copy if it can run on Mac. If not, do you have a recording in mp3 format? That sounds really cool. I wonder if you could expand those ratios to movements in a musical piece, movements between chords, between sequences of chords. I suppose you could include disharmonies and resolutions as well.
How about Best Argument Against the Turing Test (sort of like a bot version of a 'poster child for birth control)? This could be a bot which, if human, you would definitely want to avoid. 
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