"I muck around as a DJ myself, and I became aware that some of the DJing I was doing was quite mechanical"
If this evolves into a system that consistently passes the DJ Turing test, we may have a wee crisis on our hands; i.e., who will front up for electronic dance music. The unphotogenic back-room geeks who make the stuff generally aren't rock-star material, so the mantle has been passed down to mediagenic wideboys who play the records, and who have achieved rock-star status by just playing and mixing discs. If a computer program obsoletes human DJs, what will happen to electronic music performance? Will the rock star of the new millennium be the person who starts the computer, or who dances to the mix on the podium? Even if such a dancer is wired up with motion-capture sensors to provide feedback to the mix, does that make them a star, or a human component of a machine?
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