Listening for any span of a few seconds, it sounds quite nice! but beyond the length of a phrase or so, it just does not make any sense.<p>It reminds me a bit of that project to "create Beethoven's tenth" using an AI that I heard about a year ago. It was amazing in many ways, but the music didn't go anywhere and wasn't saying anything. I know that description is nebulous, the sort of feeling you might imagine or trick yourself into having, or a perception you invent perhaps out of defensiveness or say you have just to seem cultured.<p>And perhaps in a "blind" comparison, cantable diffuguesion wouldn't stand out as much. But with all that said, it definitively sounds not quite human after a moment.<p>I wonder how we can teach machines the larger-scale structures of (common practice) music. At the scale of an entire movement, structures can be merely formulaic and the music still turns out alright. At the level of phrases and themes, though, it's harder to articulate, and requires good taste. But it's the sort of "intuitive" thing that I'd expect AI to be good at, so I'm always surprised that it seems to be the thing AIs are <i>worst</i> at.<p>(My background: although I've not studied Bach's chorales in any depth, I've studied a few years of composition and used to be a church organist.)