S/N: What If AI Composed for Mr. S?

《S/N: What if AI Composed for Mr. S?》

issue : Artificial Intelligence Aesthetics and Art Research Group

Special cooperation: Goethe-Institut Osaka and Kyoto

Number of pages: 448p / Supplement to the out-of-print used CD "HIROSHIMA"

Size: 124mm x 140mm

Publication year: 2021

Language: Japanese/English

Condition: S (New)

Price: ¥5,500 (tax included / shipping not included)

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This book seeks to get to the essence of art and aesthetics, as seen in the hidden distortions of creation and appreciation in the first half of the 21st century. The subject matter is the "ghostwriter incident" by Mamoru Samuragochi (Mr. S) and Takashi Arakaki (Mr. N), which caused a stir in 2014. The assumed contemporary factor is the technology or other being known as "artificial intelligence" (AI), which has made great strides since 2012 and has been called the third boom. In the ghostwriter incident, the modern concept of "composition = creation," which should be attributed to an individual artist, was divided into two parts (S/N): "the creation of Mr. S, who does not write the notes but writes instructions" and "the creation of Mr. N, who writes the notes from the instructions." As the word "ghostwriting" indicates, common sense would suggest that the actual creation in this case would be attributed to Mr. N, who wrote the notes. However, in recent years, automatic AI-based composition technology has replaced Mr. N's creativity in terms of the division of roles, not Mr. S's. This raises the question, "What if Mr. S had an AI composer compose a piece for him?" This book contains responses to this question from 33 experts in various fields.

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table of contents

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• concept
• Exhibition photo (The Container Gallery)
• instructions
• Preface

Chapter 1: Gravestones of the Heisei Era

• Takashi Yoshimatsu | Inkyodo Diary
• Column 1
• Katayama Morihide | Mamoru Samuragochi and Shoko Asahara
• Keiichiro Shibuya | Pride of Modernism and the "S/N" Problem

Chapter 2: Music (General)

• Seiji Nagaki | An excerpt from an exchange with a record company in early summer 2011 - "It's probably within the acceptable range"
• Shigeaki Saegusa | Can a composition AI create moving music?
• Yuji Numano | If Mr. N had used music notation software: What does it mean to compose music?
• Gen Igarashi | The Black-Clad Messenger and the Last Faust
• Suzuki Atsushi | The Beautiful Spell of Romanticism
• Hirokazu Hiraishi | Instructions from Mr. S to Mr. N
• Toshiro Nakagawa | "8 Sound Poems"...for reading aloud (singing) or silently

Chapter 3: Music (AI)

• Kiyoshi Furukawa | What if an AI composer took harmony lessons?
• Hidefumi Omura | Singularity: What if Mr. N was ghostwritten by an AI?
• Yu Tsuchiya | Sketches of the Heart
• Motoharu Kawashima | Is an AI composer possible?
• Tomomi Adachi | AI and Fabrication
• Naoyuki Tokui | What if Mr. S had an AI composer compose his music for him? The future of music composition and music creation
• Column 2

others

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ISBN: 978-4-9902903-8-2