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Introduction
“Shannon wants to feed not just data to a Brain, but cultural things! Hewants to play music to it!”
Alan Turing (father of modern computing) about Claude Shannon (father of information theory), during his 1943 visit to Bell Labs
In this chapter, we give an overview of the history and the state of the art in intelligent audio and music production, with a particular emphasis on the psychoacoustics of mixing multitrack audio, automatic mixing systems and intelligent interfaces.
1.1 Intelligent Music Production – An Emerging Field
Recent years have seen the emergence of intelligent systems aimed at algorithmic approaches to mixing multitrack audio with only minimal intervention by a sound engineer. They use techniques from knowledge ...
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