The human performance at the bottom of the page was nice. But you can also give a great musician a zipper and paper bag and they can make it sound nice.
It’s just like LLM generated prose to me. The orchestration and motif development is musical sounding, but there’s these artifacts that are like the “It’s important to consider” or “Would you like further suggestions” of the aural world.
I think it would be fun to write up a detailed analysis of a full piece.
It's literally a list of cliches glued together. Some of them are style-defining cliches, but there is no hint of a strong original voice. And it's the individual distinctive voice of each composer that defines classical music. The musical wrapping is the means to that end, not the end itself.
The waltz sounds like elevator Chopin with all the bittersweet irony sanded off (and couple of questionable harmonies.)
It's an achievement to get this far, but it's still very uncanny valley, and (IMO) a fundamental limitation of LLMs that can't see beyond the superficialities of weightings into what the structures mean.
I was actually quite impressed by the non-human version of the Waltz before seeing the video with the musician. It's a lot like the fantastic Succession theme, it's not a generic waltz, it's a bit dark in an interesting way.
It’s just like LLM generated prose to me. The orchestration and motif development is musical sounding, but there’s these artifacts that are like the “It’s important to consider” or “Would you like further suggestions” of the aural world.
I think it would be fun to write up a detailed analysis of a full piece.